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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We will be closed Monday, October 12 for Thanksgiving holiday. Have a safe and happy weekend.

Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Chinatown Advocacy Network (CAN) is organizing a Chinatown All-Candidates Meeting for University-Rosedale (Ward 11) and Spadina-Fort York (Ward 10) to help us determine Who are the best defenders of Chinatown? Saturday, Oct 17, 2-5 PM Cecil C.C. (58 Cecil St) RSVP: tinyurl.com/Chinatown-Ca...

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CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) @cleolegalrights.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Starting September 21, 2026, the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) has new rules on unpaid rent, persistent late payments, compensation, and evictions. outreach.cleo.on.ca/en/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=2505

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Carney government is using legal tricks to chip away at workers’ hard-won rights. The right to strike is being systematically enfeebled through legal manoeuvring. The working class has had tougher enemies. It will fight back. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The #Carney government "is much more aggressive in its litigation and far less focused on departmental reform and making sure this discrimination doesn't happen again." www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

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Carney government files 3rd court challenge in First Nations child welfare complaint | CBC News

The Carney government has filed its third court challenge in a year as a longstanding fight with First Nations organizations over the future of their communities' child and family services continues. ...

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The poor and the law. www.facebook.com/john.clarke....

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Who are the real cartels? Americans it seems. At both borders BTW. #cdnpoli Mexican Pres.: "US Customs and Border Protection data shows that 80% of those arrested for smuggling fentanyl at US ports of entry were US citizens."

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Paul Chislett @pchislett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Portage students protested unfair work permit denials. Then immigration enforcement came to their protest and issued 10 removal orders! Migrants have the right to protest without fear. I sent a letter demanding action. Send yours: migrantrights.ca/RightToProte... #DefendRightToProtest

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Migrant Have The Right To Protest - Migrant Rights Network

250+ organizations across Canada are standing with Portage students and defending migrants’ right to speak out, organize and protest. Migrants are part of our movements. We will not allow immigration ...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Please take 2 minutes to complete this survey and please do share it with your contacts in the Chinatown community. This online survey is in English and Chinese: forms.gle/kL9Pn83FyKKx...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Please join us September 17, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm RSVP: www.eventbrite.ca/e/489-colleg...

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The primary function of non-profits is not to solve social problems, but to run cover for a state that has largely abandoned the direct provision of essential services. As Laurence Braun-Woodbury writes, our housing crisis cannot and will not be solved by a fractious and marketized third sector.

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How not-for-profits make the housing crisis worse

Non-profits no longer exist to supplement social services but to replace them on the cheap. They erode service quality, undermine labour power, and intensify Canada’s democratic deficit. As Laurence B...

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#Tariffs effectively tax consumption, and lower-income households consume a bigger proportion of their paycheque...Warren Buffett and Elon Musk 'consume' a minuscule proportion of their income and an even lower proportion of their wealth." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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ANALYSIS | How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain | CBC News

Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving i...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Please register online: us02web.zoom.us/.../register...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The City of Toronto has launched a new Rental Building Violations and Inspections Database. The database provides members of the public with access to information about enforcement activity in rental apartment buildings. www.toronto.ca/community-pe...

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Rental Building Violations & Inspections

Find rental apartment listings with active violations, inspections, health hazards and other concerns across select buildings in Toronto. Each listing covers information that allows you to track inves...

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lorrainelamchops.bsky.social @lorrainelamchops.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

spoke to cbc: if we are concerned abt public drug use, why not address the fact that people have nowhere to go? why not invest in the conditions that prevent people from being stuck outside? stop conflating homelessness w substance use. and the hart hubs are a farce.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

From 1938, considered the 1st known reference to the term woke youtu.be/VrXfkPViFIE?...

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Lead Belly - "Scottsboro Boys"

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

These results fall into the category of 'overwhelming evidence.' #GlobalHeating

Average global temps since late 90s have risen consistently and dramatically.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In two Toronto communities near new transit, nearly 1 in 10 face eviction. How can we protect more tenants? A study of five communities near new UP, Finch West or Eglinton LRT stops found higher eviction rates between 2010 and 2023. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ontario is enacting new rules for social assistance payments so people without legal immigration status in Canada cannot receive the benefits. www.cp24.com/politics/que...

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unregulated power and insatiable greed come in tailored suits ... via Truth Against Hate

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Toronto tenants say federal cash is going to developer who plans to demolish their rent controlled homes. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Since receiving notice three and a half years ago that their apartments were to be demolished for condos, Megan Kee and other tenants at their 15-storey midtown building have been living under a cloud of uncertainty.

They received the notice in November 2022, just after the pandemic market peaked. As the years passed and the condo market slumped, they hoped the slowdown would stall the project near Eglinton Avenue East and Mount Pleasant Road.

But last week they learned federal funding for Toronto rental housing announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney was going toward the redevelopment, and they’re angry that public money is being used for a project that could end in their eviction for the demolition of their homes.

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Cathy Crowe, C.M. 🍁 @cathycrowe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

‼️Thousands of low‑income households in co‑ops rely on rental assistance through the Federal Community Housing Initiative (FCHI) and the Canada Community Housing Initiative (CCHI). FCHI and CCHI are scheduled to end in 2028. Act now to renew rental assistance. share.nwmd.social/s/69eDkP6C

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You Hold the Key: Protect affordable homes. Renew rental assistance.

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CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) @cleolegalrights.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Check your inbox for On the Radar, CLEO’s bimonthly newsletter. On the Radar helps community workers stay informed about new legal developments. outreach.cleo.on.ca/en/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=2454

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is vital to discard the notion that #migrants and #refugees are helpless supplicants. They have a huge capacity to organize and struggle and the issue is to act in solidarity with them and provide the most concrete and effective forms of support we can. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

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Spain deploys military to Ceuta after thousands of people breach Morocco’s border and at least 9 die

Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory, with at least nine dying in the attempt.

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.

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The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy

It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"The conclusion that nothing can be done is unwarranted and stems from the distortions of the dominant ideology that contends there is no alternative to moving full throttle toward an uninhabitable planet." @johncke.bsky.social on defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe:

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Defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe

The sense of hopelessness generated by the scale and unimpeded advance of global heating extends to other challenges that we must reckon with. Those orchestrating climate catastrophe are also gutting ...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Photos from A TASTE OF MIGRATION, June 12, Kensington-Chinatown Network at Cecil C.C. www.facebook.com/media/set?va...

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Parenting as an anthropologist is like seeing into the Matrix: pretty much everything adults do that is annoying and dangerous is just a behaviour that wasn’t intervened in with empathy and care in childhood..." hilaryagro.com/2025/10/15/c...

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Can people with bad political beliefs change?

100% of the people we need to talk to in order to grow the movement have some weird and harmful beliefs. We still need to build with them.

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why is Mark Carney earning praise from organizations that have spent years campaigning for two-tier health care in Canada? When the loudest applause is coming from groups pushing privatization, Canadians should be worried, writes Christopher Holcroft.

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Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?

American-funded dark money groups are applauding Mark Carney’s hands-off response to Alberta’s move toward two-tier health care. With Ottawa now embracing provincial “flexibility,” the federal governm...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My summer school with the Brothers Karamazov. "In every place today the human mind is starting to lose its awareness of the fact that true security consists not in his own personal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of humankind.” -Dostoevsky charlieangus.substack.com/p/my-summer-...

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My Summer with The Brothers Karamazov

Since Trump’s return, I have immersed myself in every book I can find that might explain how we got to this moment.

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Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

From deaths and failed inspections to imperilling the safety of the blood system, the for-profit corporation that the Ford government is allowing to privatize plasma collection must be stopped ⬇️ www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/re... #onpoli #cdnpoli #grifols #healthcare #dougford

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CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario) @cleolegalrights.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Steps to Justice has updated information on the amount someone can get from the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). outreach.cleo.on.ca/en/civicrm/?civiwp=CiviCRM&q=civicrm%2Fmailing%2Fview&reset=1&id=2438

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

American dark money-backed think tanks are celebrating Mark Carney's refusal to intervene as Alberta moves toward two-tier health care. What does that say about the future of Medicare, and the federal government's commitment to defending it?

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Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?

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Kensington Bellwoods Community Legal Services @kbcls.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Social Planning Toronto released a new report confirming 3 consecutive years of rising child and family poverty rates in Toronto. Read the full report at: www.socialplanningtoronto.org/childpoverty2026

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Advancing the Promise for Toronto’s Children: Child and Family Poverty Report Card, Toronto 2026

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TNG Community Services @tngcommunityto.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Pride is not just a moment — it’s a movement! This Pride Month 2026, we stand with the powerful message of “We Won’t Stop” — a celebration of resilience, pride, and the ongoing fight for equality and justice for 2SLGBTQI+ communities. #Pride2026

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