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Steve James

@187lang.bsky.social

My career was focused on affordable housing and social justice. Now retired and living in the Hamilton area.

223 Followers  |  447 Following  |  59 Posts  |  Joined: 07.10.2023  |  2.3109

Latest posts by 187lang.bsky.social on Bluesky

10 years of reconciliation work, gone in less than 8 months. #cdnpoli

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26.11.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

YES, PLEASE

23.11.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 145    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the Petition Demand Access to NovaVax for All Canadians

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23.11.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sign the Petition Demand Access to NovaVax for All Canadians

Everyone must have access to safe vaccination.
Novavax is the safest option for those with Long COVID.
Please help bring back access to this excellent vaccination tool for all Canadians:
www.change.org/p/demand-acc...

22.11.2025 22:09 β€” πŸ‘ 280    πŸ” 89    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
JD Vance is an idiot, and I have the data to prove it. οΏΌ
YouTube video by Tod Maffin JD Vance is an idiot, and I have the data to prove it. οΏΌ

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22.11.2025 19:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Beginning in 2018, Conservatives across the country β€” Ontario’s Doug Ford, Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe, Quebec’s Francois Legault, and now Alberta’s Danielle Smith β€” have invoked the notwithstanding clause a combined twelve times"

Cons don't believe in silly things like the "Charter of Rights"

21.11.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mortality and health care privatization: A comparison between countries - CCPA Privatization is deadly. Canada needs to learn from other countries and focus on public health care instead.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

21.11.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Professor John McKnight: About John McKnight and the Asset-Based Community Development Institute
YouTube video by The MN Gov. Council on Developmental Disabilities Professor John McKnight: About John McKnight and the Asset-Based Community Development Institute

This is a reminder of the importance of genuine community during these turbulent times.
youtu.be/27fCAK1AUpE?...

19.11.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

19.11.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2321    πŸ” 583    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 40
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

I just emailed my MPP to vote NO. The more of us who speak up, the harder it is for him to ignore us.

Will you join me? OntarioNDP.ca/stop-the-attack

It takes 2 minutes and it matters.

18.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

Doug Ford is rushing Bill 33 and Bill 60 through β€” Bill 33 silences parents and cuts student services. Bill 60 makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants and raise rents, and opens the door to privatizing our water.

18.11.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Bill60 will likely be passed this week, and it will grow homelessness across Ontario β€” 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:

17.11.2025 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 127    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

Ford also wants to elect judges (US style).
With the tightened grip on schools, hospitals, towns, conservations and now real estate, the man collecting powers this fast isn’t running a province so much as auditioning for a crown he swears he doesn’t want.

17.11.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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ANALYSIS | A minister under fire, alleged lobbyist connections: What to know about the latest Queen's Park controversy | CBC News The latest scandal at Queen’s Park revolves around the Skills Development Fund – a little known pocket of government funding for organizations to address challenges in hiring, training or retraining w...

"More than half of the projects Minister Piccini's office gave funding to were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against the program's goals and criteria.

Those projects received about $742 million over the first five rounds of funding."

Looking to buy: Votes
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

17.11.2025 13:45 β€” πŸ‘ 116    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 5

More Ontarians need to take notice.

17.11.2025 13:43 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

16.11.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 59096    πŸ” 36269    πŸ’¬ 1296    πŸ“Œ 2858
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Can Canada’s health system survive if we find ourselves at war? The country at war would be more than just the logistics of hospitals and ambulances and doctors and nurses. It could become something Canada has rarely faced: a true test

Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

14.11.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2
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What a photograph.

β€œNearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

15.11.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 22946    πŸ” 9972    πŸ’¬ 878    πŸ“Œ 684

What odds would you give that the Ford government will deliver a valuable public asset into private hands for a windfall profit? Does this feel like deja vu?

14.11.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have 7 months of evidence of Mark Carney’s ill-intent and the only thing that keeps him in a favourable light is the complete abdication of Canadian media from their jobs.
#cdnmedia #Canadasky #cdnpoli

11.11.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state! Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy

Mark Carney is making concessions to Trump and trying to create Trump-style borders and surveillance with his new bills. Demand he respect our rights and treat people with care and dignity. Withdraw Bill C-2 and Bill C-12. act.gp/40oxP2E

12.11.2025 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI’m not just disgusted by #StripperGate I’m furious at Ford for all the scandals giving our money to his rich friends! Money could go to healthcare, homelessness, youth unemployment! We aren’t being protected by Ford gov - we need protection from them!

🀬🀬 #Onpoli

Oshow πŸ”— youth.be/GTfWSVd7ov0?si…

11.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2

#TruthWarriors

10.11.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So rare to read a well reason opinion out of Alberta these days. I almost skipped reading this piece. I am very glad I didn’t. We need to review the clause, and amend our constitution, if we can. Maybe this is a matter for the courts to rule on - using the constitution like a hammer.

08.11.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Straight up.
Pierre Poilievre is the party of trump.

08.11.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Special Education Funding in Ontario
YouTube video by Kimiko Shibata Special Education Funding in Ontario

The special education funding formula is broken in #OntEd. Too many children are being left behind.

youtu.be/2yFBsHE2wAY

08.11.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, someone looking out for me, the aspirational yacht owner

04.11.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Thank you, Blue Jays, for uniting & lifting the spirits of Canadians in these difficult times. Regardless of the outcome of tonight’s Game 7 of the World Series, you are already champs in our books!
#WANTITALLΒ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

02.11.2025 00:19 β€” πŸ‘ 112    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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#cdnpoli this is the best premier in my opinion @joyfulnesstoo.bsky.social

31.10.2025 00:53 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
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Government is suppressing postal workers. It should be learning from their innovative ideas ⋆ The Breach If the government listened to postal workers, they could be implementing win-win measures that create secure meaningful jobs as well as address the crises of affordability, isolation, and climate brea...

πŸ’― We also require a strong, independent, and publicly owned postal service and to not follow the UK or the US examples. There is a visionary report from the experts themselves, "Delivering Community Power", that clearly illustrates the need for a renewed mandate: breachmedia.ca/government-i...

08.04.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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