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Strange scenes at Planning and Housing Committee yesterday: a heritage listing of a 1930s 4plex in Leaside was upheld over objections of residents and neighbours. The residents clearly know what's up, even as the City sticks to canned lines that listing is no big deal, doesn't impede development.

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Our next social will be September 23rd! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics.
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> whenever you suggest Olivia Chow should use her strong mayor powers to enact citywide zoning reforms to end the housing crisis

Our next social will be August 19th! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics.
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Great outdoor walk today in the Don Valley with the @tonewlibs.bsky.social!

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Thank you to everyone who came out to our hike on Saturday! It was so great to be out in the sun, enjoying Toronto's greenspaces and having great conversations.

Our next meetup is July 19! Join us on a guided hike in the heart of the Don Valley! Put on a pair of hiking shoes, grab a water bottle and a snack, and join your fellow New Liberals as we enjoy the nature in the city!
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Industrialization, specialization, and trade is the worst form of human social organization, except all the other ones

I am hearing word that supporters of sixplexes on Council do not think the vote will get 50% to legalize them.

But here is the thing, @MayorOliviaChow has every ability to invoke Strong Mayor powers to move it along with 1/3 of council support.

(1/3) 🧵👇

The power may have gone out, but we got our bubble tea anyway! Thanks to everyone who came out tonight!

Just one more study bro!

Maybe if we break up the policy review phase 2 into 3 stages, and then break it up further into different study areas, it'll work better! 😀😀😀😀

Our next Toronto social will be June 24th! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics.

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i think it’s cool that the furthest left people who have any relevance in american politics reverse engineered “ban renters from rich neighborhoods” from first principles.

A graph of global poverty rates since 1820.

I useful reminder, when folks insist without any evidence that the 'neo-liberal' world order has obviously failed or whatever, that this is the global poverty trend graph since 1820:

I suppose you can argue these trends are *unrelated* but it's hard to argue liberalism ruined everything.

I hear this myth all the time and it’s bizarre. Rich people hire property management companies to handle all the logistics for them and still get 90% of the rent each month. The idea that landlords are forgoing free money en masse makes no sense.

keeping this for later

This dynamic has been around since the 19th century, it's basically the central insight of Leninism, that you need a Vanguard Party of professional revolutionaries because the actual proletariat is usually too interested in wages and working conditions to commit the cause properly.

I see it is up to us to be too pro-technocrat, then.

literally a party of NPCs

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to our monthly social

I was impressed by some of our members who made New Liberal bracelets! I personally took a "Neoliberal" one, I love being a contrarian. If you want one and to hang with the community, hopefully we'll see you next month!

My local Shoppers shilling for global free market capitalism.

We love to see it, thank you Galen Weston.

critical geographers really won't stop until they ruin the one last affordable first-world metropolis

Our next social will be April 1st! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics.

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Amazing, the city is moving to actually zone for the housing they want. Removing layers of discretion is essential for Vancouver planning and development to become more predictable and transparent.

Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to out meetup! Was a great time.

Urging Canadians not to "buy Canadian" so much as "buy not-US." We benefit from being integrated in a global trading order, and if the US is withdrawing from that, we have reason to strengthen trade with the rest of the world.