
Vicki M
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Vicki M
@vickimcgrego
Upstream Registered Nurse






Check your inbox: it’s @cityhallwatcher #266! Happy Budget Week! I’ve got one last line-by-line look at the police budget, with a look at what’s changed since 2020. Plus: a Council recap, featuring paper, protests and prohibitions on sledding. toronto.cityhallwatcher.com/p/chw266




News Release - TPS Officer Charged tps.to/58572

Regardless of opinion — and a poll commissioned by police assessing the value of police during budget time is a questionable, politically-motivated reflection of public opinion — decisions around police budgets should be evidence-based. And there is no evidence that increasing police budgets increases safety.


So to summarize: - the infrastructure and servicing is a subsidy to @ThermeCanada - the parking garage is a subsidy to @ThermeCanada - the relocation of the Science Centre is a subsidy to @ThermeCanada Congratulations, Ontario, on your $1.5B publicly-funded private spa.


Join our emergency press conference tomorrow to call on City Council to pass a motion and place a moratorium on all homeless evictions. Nearly 500 people have signed our letter to @MayorOliviaChow. Make sure to add your name below! openletter.earth/no-homeless-ev… /1

I really want you to take this in. Elder & Secwépemc Hereditary Chief Saw-ses, also a Kamloops Indian Residential School survivor was released from prison this morning after serving 19 days of a 28 day sentence for protecting his territories & asserting his sovereign Indigenous rights against Canadian owned @TransMtn pipeline burrowing through his unceded lands. This is reconciliation in Canada @JustinTrudeau This was heartbreaking to see this elder crying. He is back with his family now, including daughter, a Matriarch who was jailed alongside him. Hey Canada, this is where your tax dollars are going. @IndigiNewsMedia @ricochet_en @TheRealNews




