PEI Progressives
@PEIProgress
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We strive to connect leftist and progressive-minded islanders, with a focus on anti-racism, social justice, Indigenous rights, and equity of opportunity.
Epekwitk / PEI, Canada
Joined January 2022
Let's be clear - Many Islanders have progressive/left-leaning values, and many feel like they're alone in having these views. It's not true! Let's get connected, we have a Facebook group here: https://t.co/4OSbLT96ug
#peipoli #pei
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This is a place where progressive/leftist/socialist Islanders can connect, make friends, and organize. The last couple years have made it hard to make...
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Can collective ownership solve housing affordability? These Black communities in N.S. are working on it
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Five years ago, the 'community land trust' concept was almost unknown in Nova Scotia. But as the challenge of finding affordable housing increases, at least four new trusts have begun to organize to...
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@TheMcKenziest @JoshuaPHilll Conservatives point to empty grocery stores as the failure of communism or whatever. I point to the full grocery stores, in a society where many starve, as a sign of the failure of capitalism.
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Join us tomorrow at the Coles building to help gather some petition signatures on behalf of the PEI Working Group for a Liveable Income!🧵#peipoli #basicincomeguarantee #pei
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P.E.I.'s actual homelessness rate is triple the official count, revealed in a Canada-wide study on homelessness that looks more closely at who falls through the cracks of data collection. #peihousingcrisis #peipoli
https://t.co/8Jikn2gUd2
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No surprise here. #peipoli #peihousingcrisis
P.E.I.'s actual homelessness rate is triple the official count, revealed in a Canada-wide study on homelessness that looks more closely at who falls through the cracks of data collection. #peihousingcrisis #peipoli
https://t.co/8Jikn2gUd2
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How to wage war on the poor: STEP 1: Make it illegal to be homeless STEP 2: Make it illegal to give food and temporary shelter to the homeless This is happening in #Barrie Ontario this week. Not the Canada I want to live in. https://t.co/KJtIjAcCF4
Welp. They're doing it. #Barrie City Council are set to pass a bylaw this Wednesday night that criminalizes providing survival items to unhoused people on public property, with zero public engagement. It's undemocratic and it's mean. This is not how we take care of each other.
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A couple tents popped up behind my house recently. Cooking up some burgers for them and making sure their needs are met. If you see an encampment pop up in your neighborhood those folks are your neighbours now. Look out for them.
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This is one of the most heartbreaking and embarrassing issues with Canadas smallest province. Islanders have twice elected a government incapable of governing 170,000 people. Imagine this incompetence on a scale with other provinces. https://t.co/XhGAjbX24C
#cdnpoli #peipoli
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P.E.I. is leading the country in food insecurity, and more than one-third of Island children live in homes without a stable source of healthy food, according to numbers released by Statistics Canada.
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Trudeau: Happy the strike is over and services to Canadians resume. Singh: Happy the strike is over without “back to work” legislation Poilievre: Still angry no matter what happens.
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Unions work! Looking forward to seeing the details of this and I'm hopeful that its a positive outcome for WORKERS in Canada! #Solidarity #cdnpoli
PSAC has reached a tentative agreement for the PA, SV, TC and EB bargaining units at Treasury Board. Members in the PA, SV, TC and EB bargaining groups are required to return to work for their next scheduled shift, beginning May 1 at 9 a.m. ET Read more:
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Better get to work fighting for #UBI as your AI dividend. Don't just assume it will happen.
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Thank you to our 27 candidates, all of the volunteers, donors and voters! Your support means the world. Unfortunately we didn’t get an opportunity to elect an MLA last night there’s no doubt we’ve shown that we can run a wonderful campaign focused on Islanders.
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It’s weird to me that people are out there protesting mask mandates, 15-minute cities, and drag storytimes, but when we bring up unrealistic grocery prices, they respond with, “Yeah, but they have a razor thin profit margins”.
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It's hard to take the term "labour shortage" seriously when our govt. advertises #PEI as having some of the lowest labour costs in 🇨🇦 for businesses Wages being a big part of labour costs, this attracts businesses while repelling workers which ends up hurting both parties🤔
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Any company that paid out dividends or bought back its own shares while receiving the CEWS should be forced to pay it all back.
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Tax advocacy group says federal government’s emergency aid program had little transparency and few strings attached to the money.
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If you sympathize with landlords, you need to re-evaluate your worldview.
How are we supposed to have sympathy for your plight when you act like this?
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A reminder that law enforcement *responds* to crime, but a living wage, food and water security, accessible healthcare, and public education *prevent* crime. If you want safer communities, invest in people, not punishments.
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Sounds like these landlords should sell the homes they're hoarding and get real jobs. #peipoli
ICYMI: A group representing P.E.I. landlords says tax breaks offered by the Dennis King government as compensation for a rent freeze do not go far enough. #peihousing #peipoli
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