CIRCLE WITH A DOT

this is undemocratic and autocratic 🤬

"Premier Doug Ford says his government plans to give Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport special designation that would allow the province to bypass municipal and provincial laws as it pushes to expand the runway downtown."

Ford says province will declare Billy Bishop airport 'special economic zone' as it looks to expand for jets | CBC News

Premier Doug Ford says his government plans to give Toronto's Billy Bishop airport special designation that would allow the province to bypass municipal and provincial laws as it pushes to expand the runway downtown.

CBC (www.cbc.ca)

#CYTZ #NoJetsTO

@helenclayton two words: skirt guard. they're helpful for a rider of any gender.

may she not be the last

"Dalton Dubois of Guelph, Ont., made history at the recent Paris Fashion Week when she became the first transgender model to walk the runway for Chanel Exclusive."

Ontario model becomes 1st transgender person on Chanel Exclusive's catwalk at Paris Fashion Week | CBC News

On her modelling journey, Dalton Dubois of Guelph, Ont., says it's involved "a lot of proving yourself" after she quit her job at a retirement home. Recently, she became the first transgender person to walk Chanel Exclusive's runway at Paris Fashion Week.

CBC (www.cbc.ca)

the reason for all this BS is the hard right conservative government of Alberta. they must be rubbing their corrupt hands with glee

Parental mistrust, hostile interactions a growing concern for Alberta teachers | CBC News

When CBC News asked teachers what we should pay attention to in education, some flagged the growing mistrust that’s hurting relationships with parents and in some cases growing volatile. Here’s what we learned.

CBC (www.cbc.ca)

#AbPoli #PublicEducation #NeverVoteConservative

@NMBA same with NZ cops where i grew up - no guns. but they keep pushing to be armed in more and more situations. eg they used the Islamophobic massacre seven years ago in Christchurch to push harder on that

University of Waterloo students: *celebrate St Patrick's Day with a street party, again*

Waterloo cops: *send a sniper*

Waterloo mayor 'shocked' police sniper was deployed to St. Patrick's Day street party | CBC News

Waterloo Mayor Dorothy McCabe says she was "surprised and shocked" to learn that a Waterloo Regional Police Service sniper was deployed as part of law enforcement's efforts to manage an unsanctioned street party during St. Patrick's Day weekend in the city's university district.

CBC (www.cbc.ca)

Canada continues to underfund Long COVID, with fewer than 40 trials in seven years, leaving few options for navigating the disease.

No Trials, No Care: Canada's Long COVID Crisis 7 Years In

Canada continues to underfund Long COVID, with fewer than 40 trials in seven years, leaving few options for navigating the disease.

Canadian Health Sentinel (simonspichak.beehiiv.com)

#LongCovid #PCC #Canada

Leaked documents reveal that Israel’s Ministry of Justice secretly hired a top Toronto law firm to fight a Canadian agency accurately labelling wines from Israel’s illegal settlements in the Palestinian West Bank.

Just a moment...

(breachmedia.ca)

#IsraeliColonialism

@aburka https://www.wikihow.com/Fold-a-Fitted-Sheet

go Tonga! it just raised the legal marriage age to eighteen. it is hoped that this innovation will spread in the Pacific region, eg to the Solomons and Vanuatu.

Tonga raises legal marriage age to 18

Previously, a person 15 years of age could marry with parental consent.

RNZ (www.rnz.co.nz)

#WomensRights

land back!

"As the Ontario government continues to push for development in northern Ontario, an Anishinaabe First Nation in the region is praising a mining company for “demonstrating true reconciliation” by agreeing to withdraw from an area in the community’s traditional territory."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/biigtigong-nishnaabeg-reconciliation-9.7122748

#LandBack

fuck Premier Dug Fraud so very much for high-handedly taking over CYTZ without even asking Torontonians if we wanted this (i sure didn't)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-province-billy-bishop-takeover-9.7122427

#NoJetsTO #aviation #Toronto

@RandomDamage it's not a dubious claim, which you would know if you were conversant with the literature. you're being an annoying Reply Guy.

@RandomDamage yeah, it actually does matter. humans evolved with local solar time. public health data are clear that permanent daylight time causes extra health burdens on the population level.

yup. let's eliminate it altogether. and not like BC did - they chose the wrong option.

https://universeodon.com/@keet/116190223828350952

#PermanentNonDaylightTimeSavesLives

@sundogplanets that's in Aotearoa, right?

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect"
— FRANK WILHOIT (musical composer)