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 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, to Canada

Leslyn Lewis, one of ’s MPs, is sponsoring a petition calling for to withdraw from the

Since the petition launched on October 10, it has been aggressively shared by groups and influencers in far-right and conspiratorial corners of social media.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the petition had received over 46,000 signatures.

https://pressprogress.ca/far-right-conspiracy-groups-boost-conservative-mps-petition-to-remove-canada-from-the-united-nations/

🎩 @pressprogress @llebrun

myeyesaredim,

I don't think it's overly dramatic to point out when a mainstream political party gets support from:

  • former Proud Boys
  • channels claiming the World Economic Forum is ushering in a “Fourth Reich”

@HabsFan 🤷

The channel created an accompanying graphic featuring an assembly of world leaders sitting in a circle around a giant glass pyramid covered with human skulls that emits a shiny light and reads: “The future does not belong to the globalists.”

🤢

@pressprogress @llebrun @zenheathen

MediaActivist, to random
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Why we’ll risk becoming criminals to give out tents to homeless people | Huck
https://www.huckmag.com/article/suella-braverman-tents-homeless-people-streets-kitchen-vagrancy-act

myeyesaredim,

London is facing the most severe homelessness challenge in the country. Whilst rough sleeping is the most visible, there are an estimated 170,000 homeless Londoners living in temporary accommodation. This equates to one in 50 residents of the capital and includes one in every 23 children.

@MediaActivist

myeyesaredim, to random

"When mainstream media gives right-wing extremists airtime, viewers are more inclined to agree with those views and to believe that those views are widely held... the decision to consistently platform far-right figures and extremists in the media as part of a “both sides” paradigm of journalistic objectivity is a disaster for democracy."

⬆️ That's @intelwire summarising this paper https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/urhxy/ (screenshot attached) at https://jmberger.substack.com/p/the-both-sides-disaster

dyckron, to random
@dyckron@mstdn.ca avatar

Remember, market fundamentalism says there's nothing and nobody to blame for this other than themselves.

1 in 3 Canadians are living in households with financial difficulties: StatCan
https://globalnews.ca/news/10071127/canadian-households-financial-difficulties/

myeyesaredim,

So it's got nothing to do with how Doug Ford kept the minimum wage too low then @dyckron 🤔

the highest proportion of people living in financially strapped households was in southern Ontario.

Almost half of respondents in the St. Catharines-Niagara area reported financial hardship at 41.8 per cent. Next was Windsor at 41 per cent, Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo at 40.7 per cent, and Toronto at 38.1 per cent.

dyckron, to random
@dyckron@mstdn.ca avatar

Opinion: Calgary’s housing crisis is a public safety issue
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-calgarys-housing-crisis-is-a-public-safety-issue

myeyesaredim,

Thank you @dyckron: "For victims of domestic violence, an affordable home is hope."

The City of Calgary recently published its Housing Needs Assessment, which suggests an annual salary of $84,000 is needed to afford average market rent.

Even though Alberta has the highest average weekly earnings across Canada, renting is an unaffordable expense for most and is even more inaccessible to women escaping domestic violence.

gvwilson, to random
@gvwilson@mastodon.social avatar

"Tax avoidance: Canadian companies transferred $120B to Luxembourg" one rule for the rich... https://www.thestar.com/business/tax-avoidance-canadian-companies-transferred-120b-to-luxembourg-study-says/article_03d3d0d6-2bb9-5030-b146-ec33b3269226.html

myeyesaredim,

Pratte said a quarter of the profits transferred in recent years come from companies in the food sector, which is particularly concerning at a time when households are struggling with the rising cost of food.

"We often describe the problem of tax havens, of tax avoidance as being a complex technical and legal problem when, in fact, it's a political problem"

@gvwilson

kcarruthers, to random
@kcarruthers@mastodon.social avatar

Interesting: 'No' campaign –which was a fake "grassroots" movement of fake "ordinary Australians" – was run by directors with fake residential addresses...with the whole shadowy network of 6 connected entities run from a fake "national headquarters" | The Klaxon

https://theklaxon.com.au/ztem-75/

myeyesaredim,

It's depressing how well astroturfing works @kcarruthers

https://theklaxon.com.au/white-mans-dark-money-meet-the-bankrollers/

noahshachtman, to random
@noahshachtman@mstdn.social avatar

Twitter's hate speech accounts are cynically rebranding themselves as pro-Palestine for clout and cash

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/twitter-hate-speech-accounts-palestine-clout-1234867382/

myeyesaredim,

For clout and cash... and for the antisemitism too, no? @noahshachtman

The parallels between online and offline actions here speak volumes: “They’re not pro-Palestine, they just hate Jews, and they see this moment as an opportunity to get attention, get coverage..."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zx5a/neo-nazis-hijack-pro-palestine-protest-mike-enoch

cmorris, to random
@cmorris@mastodon.social avatar

Opinion: Paying more attention to the health and social benefits of libraries is overdue | Andre Picard, The Globe and Mail https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-paying-more-attention-to-the-health-and-social-benefits-of-libraries/

myeyesaredim,

“Bad libraries build collections; good libraries build services; great libraries build communities.” Thank you @cmorris @picardonhealth

Today, across the country, there are 652 library systems and 3,350 library branches. They receive more than 100 million visits each year

In the digital age, libraries are actually more popular than ever, as one of the last public spaces open and welcoming to all.

myeyesaredim, to incarcerated

Canada's federal system has kept Indigenous people over-incarcerated for too long, watchdog says in second part of a two-year investigation.

10 years ago 25% of federal inmates were Indigenous people: now it's 32%.

The steady and unabated increase in the disproportionate representation of peoples under federal sentence is nothing short of a national travesty and remains one of 's most pressing challenges

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/correctional-investigator-indigenous-special-report-2023-1.7015596

msquebanh, to random
@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

I'm dealing with more medical stress & won't be online much. Almost every day has medical appointments ATM. I'm meditating more, to calm my frazzled nerves. Unable to walk much, this week.

myeyesaredim,

Looking forward to hearing that you are doing better @msquebanh 💜

zhawanoong, to random

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    myeyesaredim,

    I'm sure the honour was well-deserved 💖 @zhawanoong - well done!

    myeyesaredim, to random

    “Keep your mouth shut and stick to it” & “in for a rough ride, hold the line ‘it’s all about housing’” - quotes from in documents released on 's scandal

    https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/energy-and-the-environment/environmental-group-releases-thousands-of-government-documents-on-greenbelt-urban-boundary-scandals-7759102

    There's also an intriguing reference to Cherrywood, the site owned by TACC’s Silvio and the largest single chunk of land taken out of the Greenbelt. An attendee at a briefing with the housing minister’s office said the ministry was doing “just what (the) owner asked for.”

    lneumannca, to random

    https://environmentaldefence.ca/2023/10/30/ontario-government-political-staff-directed-changes-to-municipal-official-plans-to-favour-the-interests-of-select-landowners/

    myeyesaredim,

    The documents received by show that:

    • directed senior ministry staff to keep their mouths shut about the changes
    • maps detailing some of the preferred developer properties needed to be provided to ’s office
    • Cabinet-privilege redactions were applied during September and early October 2022 even though the Minister and the Premier claimed under oath that they did not know about the changes until late October

    Well-spotted @lneumannca! 👀

    Windspeaker, to books
    @Windspeaker@mstdn.ca avatar

    It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People chronicles the author’s experience in leading the Tsleil-Waututh Nation opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia.

    But the story is much more than just about a pipeline. It’s about ancestral connection to the lands and waters and a West Coast people’s legal and spiritual systems.

    https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/new-book-describes-pipeline-activism-grounded-first-nations-spiritual-belief

    myeyesaredim,

    Thank you for this @Windspeaker - an excerpt from the book is also available at https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/excerpt-from-it-stops-here-standing-up-for-our-lands-our-waters-and-our-people/

    səl̓ilw̓ət, or the Burrard Inlet, ...is our mother

    The fossil fuel industries are causing damage to our mother in violation of our law, and our law told us what we had to do.

    We’re protecting what we love because it is part of us, and we are part of it. We are the People of the Inlet, and that’s why each and every one of us voted thumbs-down to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion.

    thenarwhal, to random
    @thenarwhal@mstdn.ca avatar

    For an Indigenous nation in northeastern Ontario, conservation means counting moose poop, growing traditional food and ‘being more in tune with our lands here, in addition to also doing some really good science’ https://thenarwhal.ca/nipissing-first-nation-wild-rice/

    myeyesaredim,

    Waterways are contaminated with chemicals and being choked by algae, invasive plants are increasing fire risk while decreasing biodiversity and highway traffic is killing an unusually high number of moose.

    Curtis Avery, environment manager for Nipissing First Nation, believes his community can help nurse the land back to health by combining novel equipment and techniques with traditional understandings of stewardship.

    A hopeful and inspirational read - thank you @thenarwhal

    KimTallBear, to random
    @KimTallBear@mastodon.social avatar

    Breaking, get the full story on CBC's Friday.
    https://indianz.com/News/2023/10/25/canadian-documentary-focuses-on-icon-who-based-career-on-native-identity/

    myeyesaredim,

    TallBear said she travels widely in Indigenous circles across North America and she believes revelations about Sainte-Marie’s ancestry will hit hard.

    “You’re going to hear people say, ‘I’ve lost another hero,” but she says because of Sainte-Marie’s unsupported ancestry claims, she’s “a flawed hero.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie

    @pkiff @KimTallBear

    dcdeejay, to politics
    @dcdeejay@mastodon.online avatar

    If we had started holding big tech accountable when it was clear they were a threat to our democracy and national cohesion, we wouldn't be in the terrible place we are now, or headed directly for worse.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-political-polarization-maga-trudeau-poilievre-russia-1.6702856

    myeyesaredim,

    Sounds about right, sadly @dcdeejay

    the toxic political culture in Washington and throughout the U.S. is spilling across the border and it is likely to get worse in the coming year.

    "The media environment in Canada, and the social media environment in Canada is increasingly resembling the media and social media environment in the United States. It is dysfunctional. It is rife with disinformation. It is deeply polarized."

    CheRosach, to random

    A little bit of good news for the climate for a change.
    UK meat consumption at lowest level since records began, data reveals

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/24/uk-meat-consumption-lowest-level-since-record-began-data-reveal

    myeyesaredim,

    I'm not sure that "increase poverty so that the poors can't afford meat" is the climate change policy I was looking for though @CheRosach 😞

    myeyesaredim, to random

    HungerCount report shows food bank usage at highest level ever surveyed

    Rev. Canon Maggie Helwig, who helps run [a volunteer program] out of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields church, said it regularly serves 130 people for dinner on Fridays — compared to the two dozen they saw a few years ago.

    "Every week we run out of food and start foraging in the cupboards and in the freezers for something that we can give to people. It's terrifying."

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/food-bank-use-highest-in-canadian-history-hunger-count-2023-report-1.7006464

    Data: https://foodbankscanada.ca/hungercount/

    CStamp, to random
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    Hitler looked up to Henry Ford?

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyzA1dCxcsL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    myeyesaredim,

    Huh I thought that Henry Ford's antisemitism and the Ford company's ties to Nazi Germany were well known by now @CStamp

    Maybe these will help:

    gemelliz, to ontario
    @gemelliz@mstdn.ca avatar

    Annnd another backroom deal...

    The Ford Conservative government assured Charles McVety, president of the evangelical Canada Christian College, it would get university status regardless of the board review.
    Mr. McVety, who strongly supported Mr. Ford’s 2018 bid for the PC leadership, has been called “the most publicly and vocally homophobic man in .”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-charles-mcvety-toronto-christian-college/

    myeyesaredim,

    Funny you should mention graft 💰 @f800gecko

    Part of the reason that the college didn't get university status was that financial statements showed "loans" of nearly $1m made by the college to Charles McVety and his son Ryan.

    @CanadianCrone @gemelliz

    myeyesaredim,

    There's a topical connection between Canada Christian College and Stephen Harper too @CanadianCrone

    Harper received the Israel Allies Award at a gala dinner at Canada Christian College in October 2022. The award is the highest honor given by the Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) to pro-Israel leaders.

    https://www.jns.org/stephen-harper-gets-israel-allies-award-for-faith-based-diplomacy/

    @gemelliz

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