Class Issues in Waterloo Region

Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity Gaza is on the brink of famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a multistakeholder global initiative aimed at enhancing food security and nutrition analysis, reports that the entire...

New Editorial—Gaza has been failed by silence and impunity tinyurl.com/58a4yn5t

Go do local mutual aid in your community.

Keep forgetting this app exists lmao

Just in time for the Ontario election! #onpoli

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(and get involved with local class-based organizing or mutual aid networks if you aren't already - I can recommend some depending on your interests/abilities)

A lot of old industrial setups use wildly old systems, like straight up DOS. A guy I know set up a camera to read a single value off the screen of an ancient laptop running Windows 3.1 because it didn't have a phone jack, let alone a USB port. His advice is never buy American/Canadian cars btw haha

get some materialism into your analysis!!!

Toronto can end tents in parks: Here’s a city that solved street homelessness — and how we can do it too Helsinki started with a big homelessness problem and they've effectively solved it. Experts say their model could be adapted for Canada's largest city, if we're ready to be bold.

“Change is possible,” he said. “It’s not inevitable that people end up being homeless.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Very mixed bag of all extremes and lots in between imo

Trudeau Coasted on Progressive Vibes, But Served the Interests of Corporations Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…

Another great piece from @nolore.bsky.social - truthout.org/articles/tru...

Cambridge city councillor Corey Kimpson agrees with Dixon. “We have to be good neighbours and get out there as soon as possible to remove the snow, remove the ice and make sure that our sidewalks are free and clear for everyone,” said Kimpson. “That goes for people with small children, people with mobility devices, people trying to get through with strollers and even people who are otherwise able to pass on the snow. We don’t want someone to slip and go down and break something.”

Sure. Or we could, you know, take year-round sidewalk accessibility as seriously as we take driving accessibility (i.e. roads), and demand that the city take responsibility for clearing sidewalks. #SnowbilityWR www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Competition Bureau study on grocery chains strengthens case for windfall tax in Canada The Competition Bureau’s study is just the latest in a string of evidence that corporate profiteering has cost Canadians gravely. Ottawa has now been given a range of policy options to address the pro...

Higher grocery chain markups have cost Canadians $18 billion since 2020.

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” Facebook now allows attacks on immigrants and trans people, and posts like “Mexican immigrants are trash!” and “I’m a proud racist.”

Under Meta's relaxed hate speech rules, users can now post "I'm a proud racist" or "Black people are more violent than whites."

Trudeau Coasted on Progressive Vibes, But Served the Interests of Corporations Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…

Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”

Read this well written and informative run down of JTs term as PM if you want to know who he is behind the progressive image. Hint: he ain't fucking progressive. #CdnPoli

Why would he? If he had that tendency, he would not have this job!

Picture of Mike Harris Jr. looking like Porky Pig.

We've got Harris' wee piggy in office now, protecting the Harris family investments.

Minister of Red Tape Reduction, turnips.

Bill 124 was written to undermine public hospitals while making the owners of healthcare staffing agencies rich.

Mike Harris' wife, Lauren, happens to own one.

Harris pulled the same grift - made private LTC legal and then chaired the board of one of the worst.

www.corruptario.ca/bill-124-was...

Once the majority realizes that legacy media has zero credibility, owning legacy media will be worthless.

You see the same billionaires and their cling-ons out starting up "independent" platforms and publications these days. To get you again.

Ownership matters. Know who owns what you consume.

Reminder that Canada has a significant TB problem and isn't doing anything to end it.

I found this a very helpful book for learning about sustaining radical organizing, both as an individual & as a collective. I think it is useful for any anticapitalist organizers, from anarchists to communists.

It's also available at Kitchener Public Library & some Little Free Libraries.

Again, I work at a housing not-for-profit that explicitly works on supporting unsheltered folks. Supporting them where they are at without judgement while advocating for more affordable housing and keeping people housed.

We are all closer to be unsheltered than we'd like to think.

Thanks!

Would be very neat to see this same graph reproduced for each economic sector to see which sectors growth in the imperial core has moved to (and which countries don't have it).

But I imagine your guesses are basically right

From some quick searching it seems ALSTOM has a quarter stake on ONExpress, but the Nova Scotia based Aecon has a quarter share too). I guess this change increases Canadian control of the services? (Although the biggest shareholder of ALSTOM is the Quebec Pension Plan so I'm not gleaning much)

Do you understand why they're bothering with the transfer of operations for GO? Is it merely technical/organizational reasons or money/political?

Emily and the rest of the Caroline Co-operative team did an incredible job! We are happy to have played a very small part by sharing our experiences and reviewing plans.

The Caroline Co-operative will definitely be a model for other tenant communities across Ontario!

East Coast's version of this is called "garlic fingers". Weird that Quebec is missing out in between the two places

And the Toronto Star's headline reads that Israel "arrested" the top doctor there.