MarthaFriendly

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MarthaFriendly

MarthaFriendly

@_MFriendly

Child care policy researcher. Activist. Feminist. Grandmother. Working with many others to build a Canada-wide quality child care system.

Toronto Katılım Nisan 2015
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sarah@sahouraxo·
American Professor Jeffrey Sachs: “Israel’s doctrine of war is kill them in mass numbers, kill the civilians, kill the women, kill the children. It’s doing the same in Lebanon now, and it’s carpet-bombing Tehran in Iran. The world needs to stand up and stop accepting this as something even remotely normal or acceptable. This is mass murder with US complicity.”
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Also remember that the Commission looking into the Walkerton deaths also blamed the Ontario govt of Mike Harris, which had privatized responsibility for water safety in 1996. Short memories.....#onpoli
Diana Chan McNally@DianaCMcNally

With the passing of Bill 60, @fordnation has given itself broad regulatory powers that allow for the privatization of water and wastewater without legislative debate. I'm old enough to remember Walkerton. Our water — our health — isn't for sale. thetrillium.ca/news/municipal…

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Colin D'Mello | Global News
Colin D'Mello | Global News@ColinDMello·
BREAKING: The Ford government is changing Ontario's Freedom Of Information act system, effectively gutting a tool journalists use to obtain documents related to government decision-making: - The Premier, Ministers and their offices will all be excluded from the FOI system. - This applies to all existing requests - Only civil servants can be FOI'd - The government is extending the response timeline from 30 calendar days to 45 business days. #onpoli
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Absolutely right. That should also go for the other useless and wild schemes @fordnation is shoving down our throats. ''Protect Ontario" my foot - needs protection from its government. o
Diana Chan McNally@DianaCMcNally

The defining characteristic of @fordnation, besides his unending obsession with Toronto and its waterfront, is his systematic overriding of transparency and meaningful consultation. He continually imposes his will on communities and people without evidence or input.

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MarthaFriendly@_MFriendly·
Here's an illustration of why (one reason, of several) #cdnchildcare should take a universal approach as promised in 2021 - not return to the old, failed targeting bit.ly/4cvebJl
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Jim Stanford
Jim Stanford@JimboStanford·
Thanks to Lloyd Axworthy, @DonDavies, Will Greaves, @BobRae48, and other principled voices for your brave interventions in the last 48 hours. You played an important role in influencing this change in Canada's position.
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Raffi Cavoukian 🇨🇦@Raffi_RC·
Lloyd Axworthy, former 🇨🇦 Liberal cabinet minister, has written an excellent piece in the Toronto Star on @MarkJCarney’s support of trump’s attack on Iran. “We invoke international law and the “rules based international order” when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it's the Americans — whose current government 60 per cent of Canadians now see as a threat — doing the bombing. For a country that depends on law more than force for its own security, that is not realism; it is recklessness.”
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MarthaFriendly@_MFriendly·
Yeah, we know what Orange Madman's "friendly takeover" of Cuba would look like - just watch the Godfather 2 scene of the mafia cutting up the Cuba-cake youtube.com/shorts/Dxp0qi4…
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Stephen Taylor
Stephen Taylor@stephen_taylor·
Name a better Canadian Prime Minister. You can’t.
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I wonder if the so-erudite premier ever spent time at the Science Centre's amazing exhibits, so well-displayed in its iconic building. Took his kids? My kids and grand kids loved it, until it was smashed by Godzilla Ford, for no discernible reason. Stinks. #onpoli
Colin D'Mello | Global News@ColinDMello

Premier Doug Ford says the current Science Centre - at Don Mills and Eglinton in Thorncliffe - is a "terrible location." Ford says the building was "decrepit" Ford says if they renovated the existing structure you would still have a "dumpy building." #onpoli

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Doug Ford
Doug Ford@fordnation·
Today, we unveiled plans for a brand new Ontario Science Centre at Ontario Place. This state-of-the-art facility will have more space for programming than ever before, incorporating Ontario Place’s famous pods and Cinesphere and offering incredible new exhibits and learning experiences that the whole family can enjoy. Check it out here: ontario.ca/page/final-des…
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