Ruth Cameron 🏳️🌈🇯🇲💃🏾
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#Bill60 will likely be passed this week, and it will grow homelessness across Ontario — something our food banks, shelters, and municipalities do not have the resources to address.
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#Bill60 will likely be passed this week, and it will grow homelessness across Ontario — something our food banks, shelters, and municipalities do not have the resources to address.
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
When you wonder why encampments are growing in your community, remember Bill 60.
My remarks today at the OLA:
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During the months of November and December, we will host various events aimed at raising awareness & funds to support people living with HIV in our community.
Explore related events here: www.thrivehiv.ca/red-scarf-pr...!
#RedScarfProject2025 #WorldAIDSDay
Explore related events here: www.thrivehiv.ca/red-scarf-pr...!
#RedScarfProject2025 #WorldAIDSDay
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
During the months of November and December, we will host various events aimed at raising awareness & funds to support people living with HIV in our community.
Explore related events here: www.thrivehiv.ca/red-scarf-pr...!
#RedScarfProject2025 #WorldAIDSDay
Explore related events here: www.thrivehiv.ca/red-scarf-pr...!
#RedScarfProject2025 #WorldAIDSDay
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On Tuesday Oct 19th, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and programming were cancelled out of an abundance of caution based on information received by Waterloo Region Police Services. These details have been relayed publicly by the organisations that were contacted. There is no ongoing investigation at this time 1/
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
On Tuesday Oct 19th, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and programming were cancelled out of an abundance of caution based on information received by Waterloo Region Police Services. These details have been relayed publicly by the organisations that were contacted. There is no ongoing investigation at this time 1/
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Harm reduction and safe consumption sites do not enable addiction, they save lives and make communities safer. Needle return and collection services are available at HART Hubs but NOT needle distribution, putting lives at risk. www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
Local organizations push province to allow safe needle distribution at HART Hubs
Hundreds of medical and legal experts have signed an open letter calling on the provincial government to allow the distribution of clean needles and syringes at HART Hubs.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Harm reduction and safe consumption sites do not enable addiction, they save lives and make communities safer. Needle return and collection services are available at HART Hubs but NOT needle distribution, putting lives at risk. www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
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Today, during a heatwave, Cambridge bylaw and police used heavy machinery to throw out 4 unhoused peoples personal belongings. With no suitable shelter options, they face serious health risks. Evictions should be paused during extreme weather. Learn a better way: homelesshub.ca/book/office-...
July 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Today, during a heatwave, Cambridge bylaw and police used heavy machinery to throw out 4 unhoused peoples personal belongings. With no suitable shelter options, they face serious health risks. Evictions should be paused during extreme weather. Learn a better way: homelesshub.ca/book/office-...
Looks like Mexico’s president is giving land back to Indigenous communities. I guess Land Back is land back.
May 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Looks like Mexico’s president is giving land back to Indigenous communities. I guess Land Back is land back.
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Join Us for the Ubuntu Community Health Fair!
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Kingsdale Community Centre, 72 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, ON N2C 1G5.
Let's have real convos about Black health, healing and community!
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Kingsdale Community Centre, 72 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, ON N2C 1G5.
Let's have real convos about Black health, healing and community!
April 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Join Us for the Ubuntu Community Health Fair!
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Kingsdale Community Centre, 72 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, ON N2C 1G5.
Let's have real convos about Black health, healing and community!
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Kingsdale Community Centre, 72 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, ON N2C 1G5.
Let's have real convos about Black health, healing and community!
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China is trying to recruit U.S. government scientists fired by DOGE www.politico.eu/newsletter/c...
Beijing beckons fired federal scientists
Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing. By PHELIM KINE Send tips here | Tweet @PhelimKine | Bluesky @phelimkine.bsky.social | Subscribe for free | View in your browser Hi, China Watchers. &n…
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March 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
China is trying to recruit U.S. government scientists fired by DOGE www.politico.eu/newsletter/c...
Yet another attempt to isolate, harm and scapegoat #LGBTQ students, as a way to undermine publicly funded education. Community is having to respond to homophobic and transphobic delegates at the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.
March 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Yet another attempt to isolate, harm and scapegoat #LGBTQ students, as a way to undermine publicly funded education. Community is having to respond to homophobic and transphobic delegates at the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.
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Undersea rewilding initiative to restore a kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating amazing results for marine biodiversity.
Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kelp forest project in West Sussex having 'remarkable results'
The rewilding project off the West Sussex coast is celebrating its fourth anniversary.
www.bbc.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Undersea rewilding initiative to restore a kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating amazing results for marine biodiversity.
Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Most of Quebec’s 36 measles cases contracted in health-care settings montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/12/q... @cdnpress.bsky.social
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
March 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Most of Quebec’s 36 measles cases contracted in health-care settings montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/12/q... @cdnpress.bsky.social
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
In the USA and beyond…
February 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In the USA and beyond…
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Freeland co-created the dire conditions of social life with Trudeau. Don’t pretend that her resignation is some kind of radical revolt. Her resignation is an acknowledgment that their collusion to transfer more wealth to the already very wealthy is reaching it limit.
December 16, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Freeland co-created the dire conditions of social life with Trudeau. Don’t pretend that her resignation is some kind of radical revolt. Her resignation is an acknowledgment that their collusion to transfer more wealth to the already very wealthy is reaching it limit.
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🇮🇶🇺🇸 Reports of american drones in the skies of Salah al-Din, Baghdad, Mosul and Babylon in great numbers.
December 13, 2024 at 12:16 AM
🇮🇶🇺🇸 Reports of american drones in the skies of Salah al-Din, Baghdad, Mosul and Babylon in great numbers.
Every time I haul out the snow pants I remember my nephew lying down on the sidewalk in his full snowsuit in silent protest. He was right, the struggle of getting all those extra clothes on is exercise enough for the day.
December 12, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Every time I haul out the snow pants I remember my nephew lying down on the sidewalk in his full snowsuit in silent protest. He was right, the struggle of getting all those extra clothes on is exercise enough for the day.
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NEW: Long before Premier Ford announced plans for a tunnel under the 401, a Canadian construction firm was privately pitching the same idea - and even submitted its plans to the province.
Here’s what we’ve learned.
globalnews.ca/news/10887503/…#onpolili
Here’s what we’ve learned.
globalnews.ca/news/10887503/…#onpolili
How a Hwy. 401 tunnel went from private proposal to government policy | Globalnews.ca
Global News has learned that, in 2019, the construction firm Aecon submitted an unsolicited proposal to Ontario's Ministry of Infrastructure pitching a tunnel under Highway 401.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10887503/…
November 26, 2024 at 11:52 AM
NEW: Long before Premier Ford announced plans for a tunnel under the 401, a Canadian construction firm was privately pitching the same idea - and even submitted its plans to the province.
Here’s what we’ve learned.
globalnews.ca/news/10887503/…#onpolili
Here’s what we’ve learned.
globalnews.ca/news/10887503/…#onpolili
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Why Canada Post workers are on strike Why Canada Post workers are on strike
Postal workers are striking against the “gigification” of work—and aiming to expand public services at the post office | The Monitor monitormag.ca/articles/why...
Postal workers are striking against the “gigification” of work—and aiming to expand public services at the post office | The Monitor monitormag.ca/articles/why...
Why Canada Post workers are on strike
On the morning of November 15, 55,000 postal workers—members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)— walked off the job. It’s the latest in a series of large-scale public sector strikes that h...
monitormag.ca
November 21, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Why Canada Post workers are on strike Why Canada Post workers are on strike
Postal workers are striking against the “gigification” of work—and aiming to expand public services at the post office | The Monitor monitormag.ca/articles/why...
Postal workers are striking against the “gigification” of work—and aiming to expand public services at the post office | The Monitor monitormag.ca/articles/why...
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Octavia: “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen." (1/2)
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Octavia: “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen." (1/2)
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Animals are relatives AND food. Same as plants. Your binary thinking is colonial af.
November 18, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Animals are relatives AND food. Same as plants. Your binary thinking is colonial af.
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Up now: renovictions! Staff had put forward a final recommendation for a bylaw starting July 31, 2025. It would require landlords to seek a renovation license to evict a tenant, demonstrating renovation can't be completed with tenant in place. Also requires compensation to tenant
November 14, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Up now: renovictions! Staff had put forward a final recommendation for a bylaw starting July 31, 2025. It would require landlords to seek a renovation license to evict a tenant, demonstrating renovation can't be completed with tenant in place. Also requires compensation to tenant
Reposted by Ruth Cameron 🏳️🌈🇯🇲💃🏾
Health Canada authorizes 3 vaccines that could be used if bird flu becomes pandemic www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
November 13, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Health Canada authorizes 3 vaccines that could be used if bird flu becomes pandemic www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
A starter pack full of individuals expressing astonishment and bewilderment is a non-starter.
November 10, 2024 at 9:26 PM
A starter pack full of individuals expressing astonishment and bewilderment is a non-starter.
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When pundits say no more identity politics, what they mean is they don't want Black people to talk about race. Liberals don't want Black people to talk about race. Conservatives don't want Black people to talk about race. They want silence as a response to white supremacy
November 10, 2024 at 12:29 AM
When pundits say no more identity politics, what they mean is they don't want Black people to talk about race. Liberals don't want Black people to talk about race. Conservatives don't want Black people to talk about race. They want silence as a response to white supremacy