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Sean Campbell

@seancampbellwr.bsky.social
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Working to buy and build affordable rental homes with @UnionCoopWR.bsky.social (www.unionsd.coop), and supporting purpose-driven organizations with www.scaledpurpose.com

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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
"Terry Fox, as every Canadian schoolchild knows, ran a marathon a day for 143 days on a single leg to raise money for cancer. The idols of our national sport spit out their teeth and get back in the game. What liberal democracies need now...is the sheer will to go on" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
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Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"Reception House is planning a 30-unit affordable housing project on land provided by the City of Kitchener." www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"For more than a century, the lands that would become Ookwemin Minising were a barren industrial zone. Today, children clamber through a new park and a peaceful watershed, where paddlers and joggers ease along the thick greenery." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
How Bike Share went from death’s door to one of Toronto’s fastest-growing ways to travel www.thestar.com/news/gta/how...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Positive news to finish off your Monday :-) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"For anyone who questions the role of humans in changing our climate, here is some of the best proof that we have understood for decades what is really happening, and that we can make credible projections." phys.org/news/2025-08...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My bro-in-law is bringing Beast Pizza to Kitchener! The Aloo Gobi Pizza and Mushroom Pizza are my go-tos. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Chefs hope Waterloo Region is ready to feast on Beast Pizza
Unique Toronto pizzeria and restaurant coming to downtown Kitchener.
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A big community effort led by @samnabi.bsky.social asked "what could an abundant, resilient, and inclusive region look like with 1 million neighbours?" Over 60 community groups created a shared vision across 15 topics (eg, arts, housing, health). Check it out! onemillionneighbours.ca/vision/
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The Vision
What could an abundant, resilient, and inclusive region look like? The vision statements in these 15 sections can help us paint that picture. Each section represents a topic area like disability ju…
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
What if—instead of cars—we filled our streets with people, bikes, trees, and life?
photo of a pedestrian street in barcelona, taken by me. there are people going about their business. two women on bikes are looking behind them.
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The @toronto.ca just released: Demolition and Replacement of Rental Housing: A handbook for tenants and property owners The handbook helps "tenants and property owners understand the City of Toronto’s approach to the demolition and replacement of rental housing." www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"An increasing number of farmers are looking for ways to take farmland protection into their own hands through the use of farmland easement agreements." www.thestar.com/news/gta/as-...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Does anyone know if Woodside National Historic Site is accessible generally (e.g., could I go today and have a picnic on the grass or play soccer?) or is it only for official museum/park activities?
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I would love to be able to take an LRT to Cambridge! While we're at it, let's get going on stages 3 & 4 too (wherever those future routes may run to/from). www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Phase 2 LRT shouldn’t be a question, Cambridge councillors say
Report coming in November will have options.
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
@transrights.northsky.social I am a lecturer (Wilfrid Laurier) and consultant supporting co-ops in Canada. I'm on the board of the Canadian Co-operative Investment Fund, and I lead Union: Sustainable Development Co-op (affordable housing). Happy to support on the co-op side of helpful!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 19/03/2025
Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling
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Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling
OTTAWA – As US President Trump’s unilaterally-launched trade war continues, Canadians have struck back with counter-tariffs on a valued American item: the little Canadian flag patches Americans put on...
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Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Canadian transit isn't perfect, but it blows comparable US cities and metros out of the water. A similar sized place in Canada will have a much bigger network and much better service. You can look up relevant data for the comparable US cities/regions; here the Canadian story: 🇨🇦🇨🇦 🧵 1/8
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Employee Ownership can be an important tool in the fight for Canadian sovereignty. Current policy isn't up to the task. Michael Ras and my take in today's @calgaryherald.com. It's time to move this issue into the front and centre of the Canadian economic agenda. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
There are solutions to the crises we face. Realistic pathways to wealth and ownership for working people are a good start. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Any suggestions on Canadian / non-US alternatives to Calendly?
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Brendan Batchelor @batchhockey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Still number 1. Never number 51. 🇨🇦☝️
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Randall Howard @randallh.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Intriguing to see Carbon Border Adjustments being mooted as a response to the Trumpian Tariff Tantrum. The EU has them and they make carbon pricing fairer by adjusting for things like 'Grid Carbon Intensity' in cross border pricing. Brilliant. [Paywall] www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: The best trade retaliation? Hit the U.S. with a carbon-tax tariff
Against U.S. tariffs, Canada should retaliate with a carbon border adjustment – in which countries with carbon taxes impose tariffs on those without
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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The May Day Cafe, located in Minneapolis, reopens today as a worker cooperative. The shop successfully raised over $100,000 from the community to facilitate its transition to worker ownership, and will now be run by its worker-owners as a democratic workplace. maydaycafe.coop ☕️
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Croissants and roses: The May Day Cafe reopens as a worker cooperative
The May Day Cafe in Minneapolis, a longtime community hub, reopened on Friday as the worker-owned May Day Cafe Workers Cooperative, after raising over $100,000 in small donations and securing city fun...
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Great job @berryonline.bsky.social and Kitchener, and congrats to Kitchener Housing! "The fire station will be combined with a mixed-use housing development that’s expected to provide at least 150 affordable housing units, in partnership with Kitchener Housing Inc." www.therecord.com/news/council...
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New downtown Kitchener fire station will share space with affordable apartments in mixed-use building
A new fire station in downtown Kitchener will be combined with a mixed-use housing development that’s expected to provide at least 150 affordable housing units.
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nam kiwanuka @namshine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
‘9 municipalities-Durham, Toronto, Peel, York, Hamilton, Niagara, Waterloo, Ottawa, and Sudbury-will divvy up about $88 million in funding, money that will be used to provide additional support to unhoused people’ www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
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‘Ontario should come to the table’: Feds bypass province on encampment funding
Nine municipalities in Ontario will get about $88 million in funding to support their “Community Encampment Response plans”
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 10/01/2025
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2024 declared hottest year yet as average annual temperature warms beyond 1.5 C threshold for first time
New data released by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service show last year marks the planet’s entry into a heat regime that the Paris climate agreement explicitly aims to avoid
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I’m always looking for things that explain a lot but that people have a hard time remembering. Examples: Air is stuff. Pee comes from blood. All land vertebrates have a single common ancestor. Venus is bright enough to cast visible shadows. Clouds are heavy. Bones are alive. Any others you know?
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
"The B.C. community just west of Victoria is overwhelmed with expressions of interest from physicians." "Doctors will receive paid vacation and parental leave, medical benefits and a defined pension from the municipal pension plan." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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A B.C. city put a family doctor on the payroll to address a shortage. Now, many physicians want in
Colwood’s mayor says the city is sorting through more than 100 submissions from doctors in Canada, the U.S. and Britain who are interested in the new clinic operating under a municipal funding model
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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Library with social housing on top + park (no cafe alas) arquitecturapanamericana.com/strathcona-l...
Two children playing on grass while two women sitting on a bench watch.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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Union Co-operative @unioncoopwr.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"There are plans for studio apartments all the way to four-bedroom townhouse units. There are plans for outdoor patios, plazas, gardens, parks and bicycle trails as well as ground-floor commercial space and possibly a daycare. Two parking garages are proposed." www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Waterloo council aims to put land worth $20M into affordable housing project
Proposal would see Habitat for Humanity charity get the land for free to develop 1,010 low-cost homes.
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Very exciting!
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Sean Campbell @seancampbellwr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"The number of people experiencing homelessness in Waterloo Region more than doubled to 2,371 during the past three years, Waterloo Region’s latest 'point-in-time count' shows." www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Latest count finds 2,371 people experiencing homelessness in Waterloo Region
The region and more than 40 community partners completed the count on Oct. 22 as part of the nationally co-ordinated Reaching Home Program: Canada’s Homelessness Strategy.
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Vidman 📺 Dan Lauckner @vidman.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Next year we're going to paint the Margaret Ave bike lane barriers between Victoria & Wellington streets in Kitchener. We're looking for ideas & artists. If this interests you, come out to the info sesh tomorrow. 🙂 #lovemyhood
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This Vienna street isn’t “closed” because cars have been removed. It has successfully been “opened” to everything else, to a diverse and invigorated civic life, because cars have been replaced by a multitude of wonderful things. Language matters. HT @dmoser.bsky.social for pic #OpenStreets #Vienna
Photo of Vienna street transformed for people
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Great #urbanism takes great vision. This was the High Line in the 1980s.
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