Kunal Chaudhary

Why the future of Toronto is a pile of garbage — West End Phoenix The Green Lane Landfill, where our city’s trash goes, is set to hit maximum capacity in the next 10 years. And here’s why it has become virtually impossible to replace it.

WHY THE FUTURE OF TORONTO IS A PILE OF GARBAGE

The Green Lane Landfill, where our city’s trash goes, is set to hit maximum capacity in the next 10 years. @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social finds out why it has become virtually impossible to replace it.

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New Data Shows Dramatic Rise in Non-Teachers Filling in at TDSB Schools | The Local Records obtained by The Local reveal the TDSB's use of unqualified emergency replacements jumped more than 1,100 percent since COVID.

During the 2017-18 school year, the Toronto District School Board used non-teachers as emergency replacements 4,131 times. In just part of the last school year, the board used replacements a whopping 51,727 times. thelocal.to/tdsb-emergen...

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza Fatma Hassouna used poetry and photography to record the death and devastation she saw daily. Was she targeted by the IDF? We speak to the director of Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a film about the journalist

‘I must document everything’: the film about the Palestinian photographer killed by missiles in Gaza

Ontario initially found Hwy. 401 tunnel plan had ‘potential for roadway collapse’ | Globalnews.ca An internal assessment of the plan determined that burrowing a tunnel under the highway would face technical and financial problems and could pose 'risks to public safety.'

NEW: Sometime in 2021, the Ford government paused its secret study of a tunnel under Highway 401.

One of the reasons? An analysis found “potential for roadway collapse” and “risks to public safety.”

It is now studying the idea again #OnPoli

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Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

What’s at stake if Ontario halts power exports to the US?

@kunalchaudhary.bsky.social says we risk punishing the residents of states that voted against Donald Trump, jeopardizing decades of successful and ongoing cross-border infrastructure development. thewalrus.ca/ontario-energy-t...

In Gaza, mounting evidence of famine and widespread starvation “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-tot...

“”The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday…
According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) platform, two out of three famine thresholds for food consumption have been breached across most of Gaza”

Just as health experts predicted, overdoses have increased since Ford closed supervised consumptions sites Ontario ordered five Toronto safe injection sites to close. Here’s what’s been happening on the streets since, July 19

"Without these services, preventable deaths will continue to rise...Communities will remain unsafe, and families will continue to suffer."

Read her letter to the editor in the Toronto Star: www.thestar.com/opin...
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US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammunition as Palestinians seek food in #Gaza.

The AP has obtained videos of a food-distribution site in Gaza and interviewed two American contractors working there.

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Missanabie Cree First Nation celebrates first member to earn medical degree In a heartfelt ceremony at the Missanabie Cree First Nation office, family and friends gathered to honour Dr. Jordin Fletcher

#cdnpoli #onpoli #ontario #toronto #SaultSteMarie #Ottawa

'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out Silence means we can neither confront nor mourn what is going on.

What is happening in Gaza is an injury to our collective conscience. We must be allowed to speak out.

The only resolution is the freeing of the discussion around Gaza. #Opinion

Opinion: Family doctors won’t just appear in Canada – we have to prioritize training and supporting them Our approaches to medical education and the structure of family practice have led directly to the dire shortage of physicians

Family doctors won’t just appear in Canada – we have to train and support them. Our approaches to medical education and the structure of family practice have led directly to dire shortages of physicians, by
Anthony Sanfilippo www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

The Cormorant Wars | The Local The Toronto waterfront is home to the largest colony of cormorants in North America. And now they're spreading—squawking, puking, leaving toxic guano. Inside the fight between residents, conservationi...

The Toronto waterfront is already home to the largest cormorant colony in North America. As they threaten to spread to the Islands and beyond, Alexandra Kimball goes inside the squawking, puking, toxic-guano-covered war over the world’s most divisive bird. thelocal.to/cormorants-t...

Greenbelt investigation finds Ford government actions ‘compromised’ transparency | Globalnews.ca On Thursday, the Information and Privacy Commissioner's office released a report summarizing the results of a number of freedom of information appeals over Greenbelt documents.

NEW: Ontario's transparency watchdog has released an investigation into record-keeping during the Greenbelt decision.

It lambasts the government for using personal emails and code words, actions that 'erode public trust' in government. #onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1123783...

Wrote about the impending expiry of Toronto's main landfill and our lack of a plan for @westendphoenix.bsky.social

Ha, it's a good one to have in the back pocket. Thanks for reading!

Why the future of Toronto is a pile of garbage — West End Phoenix The Green Lane Landfill, where our city’s trash goes, is set to hit maximum capacity in the next 10 years. And here’s why it has become virtually impossible to replace it.

This is bruuuuuuuutal to learn, but at least @kunalchaudhary.bsky.social taught me a new word ("Mendaciously") www.westendphoenix.com/stories/why-...

RCMP says it’s probing war crimes related to Israel-Hamas conflict The police service told the Star it launched the investigation in early 2024.

#Breaking: RCMP says it’s probing war crimes related to Israel-Hamas conflict

Fucking horrifying and heartbreaking

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while…

Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.

Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”

Bathurst Street business owner defends RapidTO amid local backlash The owner of Toutoune Gallery said the accusation that she is being paid by the government to support RapidTO is “laughable"

Great article from @torontotoday.ca about a couple of businesses supportive of #RapidTO such as Toutoune Gallery & The Spruce Wellness Clinic. @anotherglassbox.bsky.social was also quoted saying some anti-RapidTO businesses risk alienating customers. #TTC #TOpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

Ford government scrapped Toronto affordable housing requirements after pushback from three REITs, documents show Rules requiring affordable housing were rewritten by the Doug Ford government after at least two REITs warned the quotas could result in no new housing built at all.

Ontario rejected the City of Toronto’s proposed affordable housing requirements on dozens of specific properties after at least three real estate investment trusts asked them to do so, the Star has learned — with two trusts suggesting the quotas could result in no housing development at all.

Greenbelt, mandate letter emails unearthed on Ford government staffers’ personal accounts | Globalnews.ca The emails, turned over to the Ontario NDP as part of a freedom of information appeal, show staff discussing the Greenbelt and mandate letters on their personal accounts.

Good work by NDP - effective opposition tactics - but it requires Ontarians to care about corruption, which they don't seem to. Example after example of not caring about corruption, even when the New York Times comes to town.

Ontario: open for (all kinds of) business.

108 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes yesterday, as half a million face “catastrophic” levels of hunger.

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Bill 5: Ontario’s development and mining law, explained | The Narwhal Public commenting on Bill 5 closes in a few days. Here’s everything you need to know about Ontario’s omnibus development bill

Today is the last day for Ontarians to comment on Bill 5, which would wipe out the the Endangered Species Act and give cabinet the power to create “special economic zones” where development can be pushed through without regard for provincial or municipal rules. #onpoli

The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk. The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...

NEW: Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield.

Ontario electricity produced with rising percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power | Globalnews.ca Ontario's electricity is now being produced with the highest percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power since coal plants were operating in the province.

Climate crisis?
"Ford cancelled 750 renewable energy contracts when his Conservatives formed government in 2018"

Now:
Ontario electricity produced with highest percentage of greenhouse-gas-emitting power since coal plants were phased out.

#ONpoli

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The Economist says that the Gaza health ministry's death toll, criticized by some as inflated and as Hamas propaganda, might actually undercount the death toll (it could be as much as double).

Three former Shoppers pharmacists say they faced intense corporate pressure to meet growing quotas. Shoppers says there’s “an important need for this service.” Ontario taxpayers footed the bill for more than $61 million dollars worth of medication reviews conducted by Shoppers Drug Mart over a 14-month period, new data obtained by the Star reveals.

Shoppers Drug Mart billed Ontario almost $62 million for medication reviews. Former store owner says program is being ‘abused’ www.thestar.com/business/sho... @thestar.com

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