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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈

@Squarest_Root

Digital accessibility specialist, previous (and you should google why) Guelph Accessibility Advisory Committee chair, Canadian Centre for Disability Studies BoD

Guelph, Ontario Joined Şubat 2022
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
Reminder that all opinions I post are my own, that I am not a paid staff member for the city, and that this is my personal Twitter account. Unless explicitly stated, none of my posts are the opinion of the AAC, but of me personally.
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Diana Chan McNally@DianaCMcNally·
Police are not social workers. They don't prevent crime. But recently, by-law officers have been ticketing homeless Torontonians $260 for "loitering in a park without a purpose." This city needs to have a frank conversation about the role and responsibilities of police.
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CityNews Toronto@CityNewsTO

Toronto mayor unveils plan to hire hundreds of police officers, more 911 operators. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/08/11/tor…

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hayls ✿
hayls ✿@beauboesnbarzy·
Just an FYI a not guilty verdict does not erase the disgusting and dehumanizing things that those 5 pieces of garbage did that night.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
Forgive my bluntness, but I spent the day at encampments trying to help good people survive in impossible locations. I’m wet and tired and angry.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
I hope @CamGuthrie and others who push to criminalize homelessness in Guelph look outside during storms like this and imagine what it would be like to live in a tent. Those are the people you’re forcing into dangerous areas away from support services and life saving resources.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
Hey folks! Does anyone have leads on somewhere that designs leg prosthetics in Guelph or nearby? We have a community member who is an amputee and *urgently* needs a new prosthetic limb, and I am not sure exactly where to start to help getting her one. Thanks!
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
Unhoused or low-income folks and people who use substances are always going to exist, and they are always going to do it downtown no matter where you build shelter. So give them somewhere safe to gather and share community. Build it anywhere else and it will just be ineffective
Mayor Cam Guthrie@CamGuthrie

I support a daytime shelter space or hub. 100%. However, I believe our downtown cores/main streets should be purposeful places for thriving commerce, entrepreneurial small to medium sized businesses that often risk it all to provide employment with tourism & event opportunities.

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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
@CamGuthrie This is the opposite of how to achieve what you want. Unhoused and low income people and folks who use substances are ALWAYS going to congregate downtown, you either give them an indoor space to exist in or they’re going to exist out in the open. It’s their city too.
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Mayor Cam Guthrie@CamGuthrie·
I support a daytime shelter space or hub. 100%. However, I believe our downtown cores/main streets should be purposeful places for thriving commerce, entrepreneurial small to medium sized businesses that often risk it all to provide employment with tourism & event opportunities.
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Councillor Caton@CouncillorCaton·
Our downtown is for people who live in Guelph, period. Our low income healthcare, religious institutions, education and social services plus their patrons have every right to be there too. Downtown is for community, not just capitalism. The core is not just for the wealthy.
Mayor Cam Guthrie@CamGuthrie

I support a daytime shelter space or hub. 100%. However, I believe our downtown cores/main streets should be purposeful places for thriving commerce, entrepreneurial small to medium sized businesses that often risk it all to provide employment with tourism & event opportunities.

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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
@CamGuthrie Pedestrian-only areas mean that people like me can’t access them. The AAC communicated this many times. Which days and times do you think are appropriate to ban disabled people from downtown, exactly?
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Your Downtown Guelph Friends
Your Downtown Guelph Friends@GuelphFriends·
Cold weather alert! The front lobby of Guelph’s City Hall will be open past normal hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings this week (Jan 20-22, 2025) from 4:30pm to 8:30am. For more resources in Guelph, visit gwpoverty.ca/community-cold…
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
If this year has taught me anything so far it’s that you’re never too old to show up at your parents’ house late at night and sit in their kitchen crying while your mom makes you a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Lorelei Root (She/Her) ♿️🏳️‍🌈@Squarest_Root·
Kate was an absolute wonder. It's nothing short of horrifying that we lost this amazing human, who didn't just talk about love, she LIVED love. She WAS love. Her work will continue through her community care initiative Your Downtown Guelph Friends. Donate: gofund.me/f95b3652
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