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Ryan's Hope 🇨🇦
@ryanshope.bsky.social
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In memory and honour of our son Ryan Nayler we advocate for, and support people living with mental illness, substance use issues, and experiencing homelessness.
#HarmReduction #DrugPolicy #MentalHealth #Homelessness #MSTH #4Ryan #DrugSky
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Ryan's Hope 🇨🇦 @ryanshope.bsky.social · Sep 20
Please sign and share this important petition
chrisnayler.bsky.social Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · Sep 20
I was one of over 350,000 young unwed mothers who were separated from their children at birth due to Canada's post-war forced adoption practices.
If you feel moved please sign and share the attached petition.
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#AdoptionCoercion
#ForcedAdoption
#Cdnpoli
Petition e-6782 - Petitions
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An excellent interview with Dr. Mac Chown who supports our street outreach and encampment support teams. Listen and learn.
it is the Barrie Encampment Update segment. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#streetoutreach
#HousingCrisis
#Barrie
#cdnpoli
##StopTheSweeps
Ontario Morning with Ramraajh Sharvendiran | Live Radio | CBC Listen
Ontario Morning tells you what's happening in your world — whether it's down the road or around the globe. Get the latest national and international news on World Report and local newscasts on the hal...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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"Regardless of the societal pressures or social norms of the
day, cruelty has never been an acceptable part of Canadian society."

Please sign and share this petition and help the healing to begin.

#ForcedAdoption
#AdoptionCoercion
#AdoptionTrauma
#cdnpoli

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Petition e-6782 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
October 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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chrisnayler.bsky.social
Our city's response to addressing the housing and homelessness crisis is cruel and costly! It costs a lot let to house people than it does to criminalize them.
#Barrie
#Homelessness
#HousingCrisis
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#onpoli
#Cdnpoli
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In Barrie, poverty is the crime and visibility the emergency
The Ontario city’s so-called ‘state of emergency’ is a manufactured crisis built on cruelty, not care
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October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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chrisnayler.bsky.social
Petition for apology found here. Please consider signing
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
October 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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chrisnayler.bsky.social Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · Oct 4
"Canada must take steps immediately to try to atone for the harm to some of those lives, to relieve some of the suffering, and to let these individuals know that their stories have been heard and that we are sorry for what they have lived through. "
#cdnpoli

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The Shame is Ours: Forced Adoptions of the Babies of Unmarried Mothers in Post-war Canada
It is time to begin the healing process for unwed mothers and the children they were pressured into giving up in the decades after the Second World War.
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October 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
Encampments are communities! It's time for our elected leaders to stop the stigma, stop spreading fear and creating division. Homelessness is a policy failure and it's a policy choice. It's time to hold our leaders to account. Housing is a human right!
chrisnayler.bsky.social Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · Oct 3
The City of Barrie's reactive and punitive response to addressing the housing and homelessness crisis is harmful, ineffective, and a waste of tax dollars.

Housing Solves Homelessness!

youtu.be/-a3by-brvr4?...

#HousingCrisis
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#streetoutreach
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie
Outreach workers voice concern over Barrie encampment clearing
YouTube video by The Canadian Press
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October 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
This approach to addressing the housing and homelessness crisis is harmful, ineffective, and costly! It's time for root cause solutions. Housing Solves Homelessness!
October 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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We are more than 1/2 way to our required 500 signatures. If you are a Canadian citizen or resident of Canada please consider signing. Reminder, you need to respond to verification email for your signature to count.
#ForcedAdoption
##AdoptionCoercion
#AdoptionTrauma
#Cdnpoli
chrisnayler.bsky.social Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · Sep 20
I was one of over 350,000 young unwed mothers who were separated from their children at birth due to Canada's post-war forced adoption practices.
If you feel moved please sign and share the attached petition.
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www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#AdoptionCoercion
#ForcedAdoption
#Cdnpoli
Petition e-6782 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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chrisnayler.bsky.social
Premier Ford was in Barrie for a photo op to help further his and Mayor Nuttall's harmful narrative on PWUD and experiencing homelessness. Residents of this encampment told me neither man stepped foot inside the encampment or spoke with any residents. They used it as a backdrop for their photo op.
September 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
On September 19th we held a panel discussion on The State of Emergency our City is currently under. Our panelists each brought their own unique lived experience to the conversation.

#HousingCrisis
#Homelessness
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie

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State of Emergency Panel Discussion
YouTube video by Simcoe Community Media
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September 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Please sign and share this important petition
chrisnayler.bsky.social Christine Nayler 🇨🇦 @chrisnayler.bsky.social · Sep 20
I was one of over 350,000 young unwed mothers who were separated from their children at birth due to Canada's post-war forced adoption practices.
If you feel moved please sign and share the attached petition.
1/

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#AdoptionCoercion
#ForcedAdoption
#Cdnpoli
Petition e-6782 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
Join us on Friday September 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm for a panel discussion on the State of Emergency the City of Barrie is currently under.

Each panelists brings their own unique experience to the conversation.

#HousingCrisis
#Homelessness
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Pam, an encampment resident shares her experience and challenges finding shelter and the atmosphere. She says people have no where to go and they are scared.
Healing Starts with housing!
#HousingCrisis
##HousingIsAHumanRight
#Cdnpoli
#Onpoli
#Barrie

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September 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
Join us on Friday September 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm for a panel discussion on the State of Emergency the City of Barrie is currently under. Our discussion will focus on the Mayor’s State of Emergency declaration,
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#HousingCrisis
#Homelessness
#HousingIsAHumanRight
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#Barrie
State of Emergency A panel discussion on the housing crisis in Barrie. Friday September 19th 3:00-4:30
September 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
#Barrie is under a #StateofEmergency to rid the city of encampments. #RyansHope volunteers were on site today at the Mulcaster Encampment to witness the eviction that was taking place and to offer emotional support to encampment residents during this traumatic situation.
#HousingCrisis
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September 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
We are seeking people with interesting and diverse lived experiences who feel comfortable sharing their stories to become a part of our digital library.
If you are interested in taking part in this project, email christine@ryanshopebarrie.ca for more information 
#RyansHope
#LivedExperiences
April 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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chrisnayler.bsky.social
Forced treatment doesn't work! It never has and it causes harm. And how can we even be talking about involuntary treatment while people wanting help are dying while on waiting lists?
April 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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chrisnayler.bsky.social
As someone with boots on the ground this greatly concerns me. Crimilization is an ignorant and ineffective solution. It costs far less to house people than to incarcerate them and causes far less harm. Homelessness is a policy choice! 1/2
#cdnpoli
#NeverVoteConservative

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Poilievre promises to let police dismantle encampments, arrest occupants | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to clean up Canada's streets and parks by giving police the power to dismantle encampments and arrest their occupants for setting up tents and shelter...
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April 24, 2025 at 11:58 AM
ryanshope.bsky.social
We did Easter Outreach today and the Harm Reduction Bunny made a special appearance to deliver life-saving Naloxone to our friends. Our band of bunnies came armed with lots of special Easter treats.
#RyansHope
#HarmReduction
#StreetOutreach
#PWUD

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April 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
ryanshope.bsky.social
A injured senior was in need of a wheelchair. She could have received government assistance but it would take months. She needed it NOW! This is where our community came in. We put a request out and within 1 1/2 hours she had a chair!
This is the power of community!
#RyansHope
#MutualAid
April 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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💥 These are our demands:

1️⃣ DECRIMINALIZE & DESTIGMATIZE
2️⃣ ESTABLISH & EXPAND
3️⃣ REPEAL & DISMANTLE
4️⃣ RELEASE & SUPPORT
5️⃣ DEFUND & DIVEST
6️⃣ REDIRECT & INVEST

🔗 Read our full statement of demands ⤵️ www.hractioncollective.com/what#ourdema...

#HarmReduction #DemandBetter #DemandJustice
What We Do — Harm Reduction Action Collective
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April 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Here’s how people without ID or fixed address can vote in the federal election
Canada election: How people without ID, fixed address can vote
Anyone who wants to register to vote in the April 28 federal election has to be able to prove who they are and where they live.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#GVerse #Food4Thought 😉
April 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM