Dont fund daycares, fund 401k's from birth

Meanwhile, our faculty is being nickel-and-dimed into removing TA assistance from already too-large classes even as we are harangued about retention, and the university is sitting on massive cash reserves that they say they can’t spend even as they redirect operating $ to “strategic” slush funds.

We need to stop naming awards/buildings/streets after people. It never ages well.

The population of Indigenous people in prisons designated for women has doubled in the last decade. Indigenous women are currently the fastest growing population in Canadian prisons. Urgent action is needed now.

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Additionally, we must stand with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit led organizations and these communities in calling for the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action, particularly recommendation 30 which addresses the over-incarceration of Indigenous people.

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We must stand in solidarity with people behind bars and call on Correctional Service Canada to meet its legal and moral obligations to use the least restrictive measures in all circumstances.

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This response was nowhere near the least restrictive option; opportunities for de-escalation and conflict resolution were present but ignored.

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As an adult, she has been transferred repeatedly from prison to prison. When she was in pain and asking for medical help, she was met with pepper spray—while holding only tweezers.

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She grew up in foster care, where she faced racial slurs and was discouraged from speaking her language. She was stabbed at eight years old. She began drinking at seven and was hospitalized for alcohol poisoning at 11.

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These harms fall disproportionately on Indigenous and Black people, gender-diverse people, and disabled people, who remain over-incarcerated, denied meaningful care, and subjected to carceral control instead of support.

Serena Tobaccojuice has been imprisoned since she was 15.

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If we want safety, dignity, and justice, we need to stop pouring resources into institutions designed to harm — and start investing in the communities that have always kept each other alive.

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Zinger’s early exit isn’t just a headline — it’s evidence of a system so entrenched in punishment that even its own oversight mechanisms can’t shift it.

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A system that advertises “rehabilitation” while assigning $2.3B to custody and far less to interventions makes its priorities clear: prisons function to control, not to care.

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Zinger is leaving because the system refuses to change.
Because the over-incarceration of Indigenous people continues to go unchecked.
Because human rights abuses are met with reports instead of action.

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…in order to better support the people served in shelter, we need to also support their pets as part of the family unit. Anova’s Clarke Road shelter is currently pet-friendly, and has been for nearly 2 years! For a database of other shelters with pets programs, visit safeplaceforpets.org

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I was happy to represent Anova, as their Board of Directors co-chair.

Research shows that a significant number of family violence survivors refuse to leave their pets behind. Anova recognizes that…

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