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Matata means trouble in Swahili. Delve into engaging stories that straddle two worlds of Goa and Kenya, in mid-20th century, by Braz Menezes.
Toronto, ON
Joined May 2014
@kylegriffin1 In Donald Trump's world, things rigged in his favor is a "lucky break." But things not to his liking? Rigged and unfair! Aileen Cannon must recuse herself, and if she doesn't the 11th circuit court must step in and CASTIGATE her once more. #TrumpIndictment
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She’s right. Doug Ford is sitting on billions of dollars. No more federal handouts until Ford coughs up some money for Chow.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has rejected a request from Toronto's new mayor for hundreds of millions of dollars in financial support for Canada's biggest city. The city of Toronto faces a near billion dollar budget shortfall this year. https://t.co/17V0eoccYw
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Waterdown rally opposes Doug Ford’s Greenbelt development plan https://t.co/tFlmIpM9g2 via @CHCH #HandsOffTheGreenbelt
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Thanks to the Ford government, Loblaws Ltd is now allowed more than before to be a healthcare provider giving it access to Ontario’s biggest budget line. Congratulations to shareholders, hope you’re satisfied, but imagine, you’re not. Greed has no bounds.
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The owner of Canada's largest grocery and drugstore chains posted a quarterly profit of $508 million in the past three months, as sales across virtually all of its businesses continue to grow.
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Ontario developers have spent nearly $173 million scooping up hundreds of acres in the former Greenbelt this summer, months after the Ford government reneged on its promise to protect the environmentally sensitive land.
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The developers say they will build on the once-protected land “to assist the province with its goal to improve housing supply and affordability.”
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Hey @loblawco I want to buy Ontario peaches but not when they come in throw-away plastic boxes that will be in the environment and our bodies for hundreds of years. #plasticpollution
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Opposition to the Ontario Place megaspa isn't just online: I was at consultations in April where hundreds of people talked about why it's a bad idea. The opposition is real, it's growing, and the developers are afraid of losing their cash cow.
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The proponents are in denial and dismissive about opposition to the Ontario Place MegaSpa plan, but that won’t make it go away. https://t.co/2Zk8Q3MzU7 via @torontostar
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Criticism of Doug Ford’s private spa plan is not just social media noise — it’s widespread and the planners would do well to take it seriously.
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PASS this on!! #Medicare is a large part of what makes us happy to be Canadian. We care for each other. Healthcare is a human right
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@jen_keesmaat Can I ask, when the Federal government provided money to Toronto, where does it go? It seems they’ve already allocate almost $400 million to Toronto. Does the money go through the province or directly to Toronto? Is there tracking of how Toronto spent the money?
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@jen_keesmaat Resources are available in abundance but the will is not. Billions after billions are found & spent regularly for war but not to support the most marginalized among us! There's more vacant housing than people without housing in most of our big cities.
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@jen_keesmaat There is a worldwide demand for workers. The “newcomers” are not a problem. You are. Time to get to work and accommodate this windfall before they get fed up and leave. Tory/Ford doing nothing costs nothing policy is an abject disaster.
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The Conservative Party of Canada is nothing like the Progressive Conservatives of Brian Mulroney or Joe Clark or Robert Stanfield. Pierre Poilievre’s CPC is a Far Right party that contains MPs who dined with a neo-Nazis Member of the European Parliament-without censure.
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There's a v good reason why Brian Mulroney is silent on today's Conservative party. If you lean right, but understand the horrors of fascism you have no political home in Canada. PP is far worse than Harper.
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Love this car-free portion of Broadway in NYC. Reminds me of a similar little bend in a pathway near a square in Lisbon, that is intersected by a bike lane, cheek by jowl with patios. Very European, NYC.
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Are you listening #Toronto
It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.
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85000 wait on housing lists, 65000 units sit empty used as investments, main streets are dying for the same reason #Toronto @oliviachow please EXPROPRIATE!! Use it or lose it. Yes they'll sue. Fight back (like Ford always does) #HousingforAll
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More than a dozen of the recipients of a controversial new honour for Ontario lawyers donated to either Attorney General Doug Downey’s election campaign or his riding association, the Star has found.
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The feds should expropriate the City of Toronto’s Ontario Place lands first. They have the power. They should use it. 🍁🍁🍁 #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli
@justintrudeau @s_guilbeault @cafreeland @marcomendicino @ONPlace4All
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Pierre, your deputy is quoted in this article talking about her sneakers. Is that why you didn’t include the link of the article? You encouraged illegal blockades of our ports. You also support taking away the right of port workers to strike. You’re not serious!
So the federal Port of Vancouver is on strike, blocking billions of dollars of goods, driving up prices & threatening jobs. And the minister responsible is busy showing off his new sneakers. Any wonder why, after 8 years of Trudeau, so many families can’t pay their bills?
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