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Everyone should have access to high-quality housing and healthcare that suits their needs. Organizer, Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association: 👉 lhpta.bsky.social 👉 linktr.ee/lhpta

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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
We have been inundated with multiple scandals from the Toronto Police Service, from Spain to Project South to the sexual assault of a minor. We must have a serious conversation about this extreme breach of trust. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Toronto police officer charged with sexual assault of female youth
A Toronto police officer is facing half a dozen charges in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a girl last year.
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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Previous generation of police reformers seem to be stifled in the face of this onslaught of disturbing stories... Toronto needs the elected voices of more people like DCM.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thank you for interviewing me, Matthew! Justice and music are my two pillars — can't wait to bring them to City Hall!
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada — who also formed a majority government at the time — refused to re-open the tripartite agreement and allow the airport expansion. The federal government did it before, they can do it again. Call your MP: ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...
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Toronto Liberal MPs downplay provincial Billy Bishop expansion plan, acknowledge some worries
Ontario government is laying the groundwork for a massive overhaul of the city airport
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
HELL NO, O’Leary (and Smith). “What Part of Treaty Don’t You Understand?” (Substack by @brandimorin.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/indigeno...
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Multi-Millionaire Kevin O’Leary Wants to Build the Largest AI Data Center on Earth — On Cree Treaty Land
Alberta is fast-tracking the world’s largest AI data center — on Indigenous territory, without consent.
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We need more homes like this - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pa...
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Build Supportive Affordable Housing at 1499 and 1501 Queen West
The City of Toronto, and Canada as a whole, is in an unprecedented affordable housing crisis. Many struggle to find safe and stable housing in Toronto and Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) wa...
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.
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Diana Chan McNally for Parkdale—High Park
YouTube video by Diana Chan McNally
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Toronto Tenant Union @tenantsunionto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
What do we do now that Bill 60 is taking effect? Do we go back to accepting neglectful landlords & endless rent increases? Let's take action! Join the Toronto Tenant Union's Orientation! 📆 May 2 🕓 4 PM 📍 York South-Weston Community Hub 🔗 tenantunion.ca/orientation #TenantPower #StrongerTogether
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Toronto Tenant Union Orientation
Learn about tenant organizing
Force real change

Demand rent control now!
tenantunion.ca/orientation

Bring a friend. Build the movement.

Saturday May 2
4 pm - 5:40 pm

York South-Weston Community Hub
2575 Eglinton Ave W

Design:
Toronto Tenant Union logo on the top left with a blue background on the whole page. There's an image cutout of people holding various tenant related banners with cardboard cockroach on sticks & megaphones. There's a yellow strip at the bottom with more text.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Man, there are times I think Palestinians are carved out of pure iron.
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Gaza’s destroyed universities pivot to online teaching as they wait to rebuild
Thousands of students continue their studies from tents or the ruins of homes: ‘It is our message of defiance and resilience’
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Toronto Tenant Union @tenantsunionto.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Did you know that our tenant union is growing all over the city? Doesn't matter if you're in Scarborough, Malvern, Don Valley, North York, Weston, York, Etobicoke, South Etobicoke, Parkdale, Regent Park, Downtown or anywhere else in Toronto. Join us: www.tenantunion.ca/membership #TenantPower
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Today is the 42nd Anniversary of the Canada Health Act, the perfect time for the Liberals to enforce the act and protect public healthcare. But will they?
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Can verify this friend is 💯 legit
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Growing rally (and lots of honking) outside of The Crossways following the founding convention of the @tenantsunionto.bsky.social — the first city-wide union aimed at building collective tenant power. Protesters calling out bad landlords, pest problems and above guideline rent increases.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Avi Lewis: "When Israel commits a genocide in Gaza, we call them out. When the US and Israel start an illegal and reprehensible war against Iran that sets the world on fire, we say Canada should have absolutely no role in it whatsoever."
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/03/2026
Merci à tous les bénévoles, donateurs, organisatrices et membres du NPD qui ont contribué à faire de ce mouvement un événement historique. Nous jetons les bases d’un nouveau départ et nous sommes prêts à faire un retour en force sur la scène politique canadienne. Ça commence maintenant.
Avi Lewis salue la foule tandis que ses partisans se rassemblent derrière lui sous une banderole sur laquelle on peut lire : « Le retour du NPD commence maintenant. »
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/03/2026
The NDP family is bursting with talent.  Tanille, Tony, Rob, Heather — each of your incredible campaigns have made our movement so much stronger. Let's get to work and rebuild this party together.
Avi Lewis, Heather McPherson, Tony McQuail, Tanille Johnston, and Rob Ashton cheering on stage together at the 2026 NDP Convention in Winnipeg.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/03/2026
To every volunteer, donor, organizer and NDP member who helped power this history-making movement: thank you. We are building a new foundation for our party, and we are ready to come roaring back on the Canadian political stage. Let’s get to work!
Avi Lewis waving as supporters gather behind him beneath a slogan: "The NDP comeback starts now."
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
CBC News honours the life and legacy of Stephen Lewis.
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Sign this petition to help make this non-market affordable supportive housing on Queen St West (Toronto) happen! you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pa...
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Build Supportive Affordable Housing at 1499 and 1501 Queen West
The City of Toronto, and Canada as a whole, is in an unprecedented affordable housing crisis. Many struggle to find safe and stable housing in Toronto and Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC) wa...
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
>4,000 refugees are in Toronto's shelter system, yet Fed Gov’t plans to CUT supportive IHAP funding. This would result in mass homelessness and the elimination of shelter space. Org’s/individuals working in and adjacent to the housing/refugee rights space, SIGN HERE: forms.gle/Qhusz8ByH6zC...
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Sign on: Ensuring Federal Funding for Refugees
The federal government is severely reducing funding for refugee shelter in the City of Toronto. If this funding is cut, it would mean the loss of shelter space and thousands of refugees on the street ...
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I signed… “To pass the Consent Awareness Week Act, 2025 to declare the third week of September as Consent Awareness Week and facilitate expanded consent awareness education, programming and initiatives in Ontario schools, workplaces and across the province.” www.alexagilmour.ca/establish-co...
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Establish Consent Awareness Week
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Join to honour the past, present and future victories of the Labour Movement at this year’s annual Labour Day Parade! Sept 1 at 9:30 a.m. Parade route: University Avenue → Queen Street → Dufferin Street → CNE Grounds www.labourcouncil.ca/labour-day-p...
Poster with background image of a large crowd of protesters. Text overlay reads:

Labour Day Parade
A Canada for Workers

Made Here
Paid Here

Monday Sept 2025
9:30am Departure
University Av @ Queen St W

Toronto & York Region Labour Council
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Federal #publicsectorworkers will soon be on the frontlines of the fight against #Carney's austerity agenda. They will be fighting for all of us. www.readthemaple.com/chretien-era...
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Oh look! 💁🏼‍♀️ The Fed Labour Board just added fuel to the fire! (✊🏻 #Solidarity with #AirCanada CUPE component workers!) #OnLab #CdnPoli #unfaircanada @oflabour.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Federal labour board deems Air Canada flight attendants' strike 'unlawful' | CBC News
The independent tribunal that administers Canada's labour laws has deemed the strike by Air Canada's some 10,000 flight attendants illegal and is ordering workers back to the skies.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... "To legislate us back to work 12 hours after we started? I'm sorry, snowstorms have shut down Air Canada for longer than we were allowed to strike."
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Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union | CBC News
Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Emplo...
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
They tend to your comfort and safety while soaring 600km/hr 10,000 meters above the Earth. Trampling their Charter-protected right to strike after years of underpay & forced free labour is — at the very least — a *bad* idea. ✊🏻Solidarity with Air Canada Flight Attendants @oflabour.bsky.social
Screenshot of tweet by Ontario Federal Labour that reads: 

🚨 URGENT CALL TO ALL WORKERS: DEFEND AIR CANADA CUPE COMPONENT WORKERS’ RIGHT TO STRIKE 🚨

Where:  Toronto Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1
When: 9:00 AM, Tomorrow - August 17

The federal government is moving to trample the Charter-protected right to strike forcing binding arbitration and back-to-work orders that strip workers of free and fair collective bargaining.
This is unconstitutional government overreach. If they get away with it here, this sets a dangerous precedent. 

✊🏾Join the labour movement at Toronto Pearson. Solidarity with Air Canada flight attendants. Defend the right to strike.
Digital poster endorsed by the Ontario Federation of Labour that reads: 

URGENT CALL TO ALL WORKERS:
DEFEND AIR CANADA CUPE COMPONENT WORKERS' RIGHT TO STRIKE

WHEN:
SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 - FROM 9:00 AM
WHERE:
TORONTO PEARSON INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, TERMINAL 1
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I lived in here briefly while it was still under construction. Its target market was students & it placed tenants in shared units w/others. I recall informing mgmt that they were obligated to deliver the cleaning services *that were included* in lease agreements 🫠 www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Ottawa lawyer says eviction plan for Little Italy apartment building sidesteps tenants’ rights
An Ottawa lawyer says a proposed mass eviction at a Little Italy apartment building sidesteps the legal protections Ontario tenants are entitled to and is being brought before the wrong court.
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
👏 Another great quote from the Judge’s overview of the reasons for judgement (re: “fear of opening the floodgate” argument): “Rights claims are not denied because others may make a similar claim or because it is administratively inconvenient to comply with the Charter.”
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
A groundbreaking new report has just revealed a pipeline of hundreds of ongoing arms shipments from Canada to Israel and the government's web of lies over the last 21 months. Read it and act now - we can’t let a single MP off the hook. #ArmsEmbargoNow armsembargonow.ca/report
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Arms Embargo Now!
Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I just wrote a letter: Report reveals Canada's Lies + Complicity: Demand an Arms Embargo. Write one here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ar...
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Report Reveals Canada's Lies + Complicity - Leadnow
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Geordie @geordiedent.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Can’t believe it finally passed. We tried this year ago and if not for some of the same opposition, it could have lowered rents across the board and forced millions in repairs during both COVID and now
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
thecradle.co/articles-id/... ‘The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army’s siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.’
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Harvard-linked study finds Israel ‘disappeared’ nearly 400,000 Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children: Report
The study by a Ben Gurion University professor uses data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to highlight a severe decline in Gaza’s population since October 2023
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I just wrote to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social‬ Ministers Anandasangaree & Diab demanding that Bill C-2 be rescinded. This law gives dangerous unchecked powers to the government to deport people, including permanent residents and attacks refugees. Add your name: migrantrights.ca/take-action/...
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Stop Bill C-2 - Migrant Rights Network
Send an Email Now! Bill C-2 is a cruel and violent law that aims to create a mass deportation machine: One-Year Refugee Deadline: Bill C-2 blocks anyone in Canada over one year from claiming refugee s...
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Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association @lhpta.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing www.readthemaple.com/how-canadas-... By @emmapaling.bsky.social 👏
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How Canada’s ‘Condo Class’ Has Disrupted Political Organizing
The rise of condos is making door-to-door political campaigning obsolete.
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Alexa Gilmour @alexagilmour.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Thrilled to join the Annual Community BBQ in the High Park buildings! It’s always heartening to see neighbours come together and build community over great food & conversations. Thank you Livmore High Park Tenants' Association for hosting, and for your continued advocacy & community leadership!
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Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association @lhpta.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
We were thrilled to have @alexagilmour.bsky.social attend our Annual Community BBQ last weekend! Thank you, Alexa, for speaking in support of rent control ✊
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Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association @lhpta.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
A home…a home…a home is with the fight! No more greedy landlords. Housing justice NOW. @230fightback.bsky.social @nodemovictions.bsky.social @springmagca.bsky.social @demsocialistsca.bsky.social
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
F*ck Bill 5 ✊🏻
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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is unbelievable. The government is silencing debate and skipping public hearings to push through their plan to politicize Ontario’s courts. First Bill 5. Now this. How far are they willing to go?
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
“We must see this as an opportunity to break the grip of the developers and speculators and defeat the established political orthodoxy that holds that housing provision requires the incentivization of these parasitic interests.” 👏💯
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎯 “…financial firms are more aggressive in pursuing rent increases because they say that they are: the firm themselves state that their growth is driven by raising rents, and that they pursue more aggressive increases...” 👏 Fantastic research by @uwaterloo.ca journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Financialization, housing rents, and affordability in Toronto - Martine August, Cloé St-Hilaire, 2025
This article examines the links between financialization, rent increases, and spatial inequality in Toronto, Canada. By drawing on qualitative data from the gre...
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s *not* immigrants. It’s *not* lack of supply. It’s $$$ firms that are making housing unaffordable. “Census data shows that the supply of housing has been greater than population growth almost every year since 2010, yet housing price increases consistently outstrip inflation every year.”
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The rapid evaporation of affordable housing has created a dire situation for working Canadians. Since financialized firms entered the housing market average home prices have risen 318%. Two-thirds of tenants are now being charged unaffordable rents.
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The REIT-ification of housing
The financialization of housing is a result of policy choices made by successive federal and provincial governments over decades. The Federal Housing Advocate points to three major policy drivers: the...
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Livmore High Park Tenants’ Association @lhpta.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Agreed: Financialized landlords… (like GWL Realty Advisors, Dream Ultd, Starlight, Minto, Brookfield, etc) …should NOT be accessing supports when they are literally pricing people out of their homes. @mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A @uwaterloo.ca researcher: 👉“The  government  has goals to improve housing affordability, but their programs give funding to organizations who eviscerate housing affordability…” @mark-carney.bsky.social @gregorrobertson.bsky.social @ontariopc.bsky.social uwaterloo.ca/news/financi...
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Financial landlords are leading Toronto rent hikes | Waterloo News
Financial landlords in Toronto charge monthly rents 44 per cent higher than the average neighbourhood price, according to a groundbreaking new study. The increase translates to $670 more on average. A...
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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 08/05/2025
Amnesty International is urging Canada to take action against the United States, in its strongest warning ever against the rise of authoritarian practices south of the border and around the world. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Amnesty International presses Ottawa to take action against U.S. on human rights
Organization calls on Ottawa to appoint a human-rights ambassador, withdraw from the Safe Third Country Agreement and address human-rights issues abroad
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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 08/05/2025
Amnesty is urging Canada to take action against the US, in its strongest warning ever against the rise of authoritarian practices south of the border & around the world 🔗theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-amnesty-international-presses-ottawa-to-take-action-against-us-on/?intcmp=gift_share
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I cannot emphasize enough how amazing Bhutila’s solidarity & support has been for my community & so many others in #TaiaiakonParkdaleHighPark when it comes to making life better for people. Go vote for @bhutilakarpoche.bsky.social so she can continue to hold gov’t to account! 🍊✊🏻🧡
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Cynthia Black (she/her) @cynthiablack.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Collection of photos of Bhutila Karpoche showing her support for renters including her 2023 Tenant Guide, attending a tenants’ community event, and standing in solidarity with renters to protest high rents/the lack of rent control.
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